 Methodologically, feminist philosophy of law draws a great deal from feminist work in other areas of philosophy and has broken new ground as well. Feminist  epistemological accounts  of epistemic injustice and the social nature of knowledge are especially salient to many questions about and within law (McKinnon 2016). Trials, after all, depend on testimony. Fricker (2007) considers both testimonial injustice and hermeneutical injustice. Testimonial injustice occurs when people are discounted as credible because of stereotypes such as those rooted in sex or race; it may also occur when people are assessed as overly credible for similar reasons, likely to the detriment of the credibility accorded others (Medina 2013). For example, a woman’s testimony may be discounted in allegations of rape in the face of her assailant’s claim of consent. To take another example, claims of asylum seekers about threats they face in their home countries may be disbelieved. Hermeneutical injustice occurs when others do not even have the concepts to understand what someone is saying, as when a victim of sex trafficking claims she was coerced but police or immigration authorities can only visualize her as an economic migrant. Work of African-American feminists such as Dotson (2011) present especially powerful accounts of race-based epistemic injustice. An additional illustration of the importance of feminist epistemology is the development of understanding of first person standpoints. This work has informed discussions of victim protection, for example (Schroeder 1991).