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Free Will To Will? A Case For The Recognition Of Intestacy Rights For Survivors To A Same-Sex Marriage Or Civil Union?, Christine A. Hammerle
Free Will To Will? A Case For The Recognition Of Intestacy Rights For Survivors To A Same-Sex Marriage Or Civil Union?, Christine A. Hammerle
Michigan Law Review
This Note argues that courts should recognize intestacy rights for same sex couples that were validly married or civilly united in a state other than the one in which one of the partners died. Courts may validly recognize the marriage for intestacy purposes, even while refusing to recognize the marriage as against public policy. Part I details the recent provision of benefits in various states to same-sex couples. Part II argues that same-sex couples cannot necessarily rely on wills to effectuate their intent to leave their property to their spouses. Part III argues that when states refuse to recognize the …
Mark(Et)Ing Nondiscrimination: Privatizing Enda With A Certification Mark, Ian Ayres, Jennifer Gerarda Brown
Mark(Et)Ing Nondiscrimination: Privatizing Enda With A Certification Mark, Ian Ayres, Jennifer Gerarda Brown
Michigan Law Review
People in the United States strongly support the simple idea that employers should not discriminate against gays and lesbians. In a 2003 Gallup poll, eighty-eight percent of respondents said that "homosexuals should . . . have equal rights in terms of job opportunities." Even prominent social conservatives- such as George W. Bush-give lip service to the idea that employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong. But gay rights advocates have achieved only modest legal reform on this issue. Seventeen states have prohibited employment discrimination against gays and lesbians. A seemingly modest bill, the Employment Non Discrimination Act …
Toward An International Standard Of Abortion Rights: Empirical Data From Africa, Chad M. Gerson
Toward An International Standard Of Abortion Rights: Empirical Data From Africa, Chad M. Gerson
ExpressO
In the Fall of 2005 I published a brief Development in the Chicago Journal of International Law concerning the prospects for establishing the right to obtain an abortion as a fundamental human right. See 5 Chi. J. Int’l L. 753. In that article I argued that the right to choose and access to abortion services would greatly improve the health and status of women and children in the developing world.
In this article, I follow up with empirical data regarding the status of abortion rights in African countries. These data are compared to maternal and infant mortality and contraceptive use. …
The Law Of Unintended Consequences: The Far-Reaching Effects Of Same-Sex Marriage Ban Amendments, C. Susie Lorden
The Law Of Unintended Consequences: The Far-Reaching Effects Of Same-Sex Marriage Ban Amendments, C. Susie Lorden
ExpressO
In 2004, thirteen states passed same-sex marriage ban amendments in response to a Massachusetts ruling from the previous year that sanctioned marriage for gay couples. Most of the amendments contained two prongs that defined marriage and also prohibited legal recognition of unmarried relationships in an attempt to avoid marriage substitutes, such as civil unions.
These amendments not only blatantly discriminate against same-sex couples by barring them from marriage, but the amendments also insidiously cause further damage by using undefined and ambiguous language capable of discriminating against gays and lesbians in ways not admitted by the proponents and not intended by …
Traditional Values, Or A New Tradition Of Prejudice? The Boy Scouts Of America Vs. The Unitarian Universalist Association Of Congregations, Eric Alan Isaacson
Traditional Values, Or A New Tradition Of Prejudice? The Boy Scouts Of America Vs. The Unitarian Universalist Association Of Congregations, Eric Alan Isaacson
ExpressO
President William Howard Taft, a Unitarian leader whose liberal faith had been viciously attacked by religious conservatives in the 1908 presidential campaign, used the White House as a platform in 1911 to launch a new nonsectarian organization for youth: The Boy Scouts of America (“BSA”). Lately, however, the BSA itself has come under the control of religious conservatives – who in 1992 banned Taft’s denomination from the BSA’s Religious Relationships Committee, and in 1998 threw Taft’s denomination out of its Religious Emblems Program. The denomination’s offense: A tradition of teaching its children that institutionalized discrimination is wrong. Unitarian Universalist religious …
Finding The Sex In Sexual Harassment: How Title Vii And Tort Schemes Miss The Point Of Same-Sex Hostile Environment Harassment, Yvonne Zylan
Finding The Sex In Sexual Harassment: How Title Vii And Tort Schemes Miss The Point Of Same-Sex Hostile Environment Harassment, Yvonne Zylan
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
It has been nearly a quarter century since the United States Supreme Court first recognized the cause of action for a sexually hostile work environment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, the Court essentially adopted the view offered by legal academician Catharine MacKinnon that harassment taking the form of a sexually hostile work environment is a manifestation of gender-based power. In so doing, the Court created a remedy for many aggrieved employees, permitting redress in the federal courts for a problem that makes many workplaces unbearable. At the same …
Gay Marriage, Public Opinion And The Courts, Nathaniel Persily
Gay Marriage, Public Opinion And The Courts, Nathaniel Persily
All Faculty Scholarship
This Article examines trends in public opinion and media coverage on gay marriage to evaluate the claim that the Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in Goodridge v. Department of Health catalyzed an anti-gay “backlash.” We find that in the immediate aftermath of Lawrence a larger share of the American public expressed hostile attitudes on questions tapping opinions on gay sex and gay marriage. That backlash continued through the two Goodridge decisions and the 2004 election, but appears to have leveled off and even returned to pre-Lawrence levels by the summer of …
From Stonewall To The Suburbs? Toward A Political Economy Of Sexuality, Angela P. Harris
From Stonewall To The Suburbs? Toward A Political Economy Of Sexuality, Angela P. Harris
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Sexuality And Sovereignty: The Global Limits And Possibilities Of A Lawrence, Sonia K. Katyal
Sexuality And Sovereignty: The Global Limits And Possibilities Of A Lawrence, Sonia K. Katyal
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Backlash Thesis And Same-Sex Massiage: Learning From Brown V. Board Of Education And Its Aftermath, Carlos A. Ball
The Backlash Thesis And Same-Sex Massiage: Learning From Brown V. Board Of Education And Its Aftermath, Carlos A. Ball
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Patriotic Homosocial Discourse, Kim H. Pearson
Patriotic Homosocial Discourse, Kim H. Pearson
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Conceptualizing Violence Against Pregnant Women, Deborah Tuerkheimer
Conceptualizing Violence Against Pregnant Women, Deborah Tuerkheimer
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Ian Ayres & Jennifer Gerarda Brown, Straightforward: How To Mobilize Heterosexual Support For Gay Rights, Evan Wolfson
Book Review: Ian Ayres & Jennifer Gerarda Brown, Straightforward: How To Mobilize Heterosexual Support For Gay Rights, Evan Wolfson
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Legal Archaeology And Feminist Legal Theory: A Case Study Of A Violation Of A Protective Order , Debora L. Threedy
Legal Archaeology And Feminist Legal Theory: A Case Study Of A Violation Of A Protective Order , Debora L. Threedy
ExpressO
This article explores the intersection between the field of legal archaeology and feminist legal theory through the medium of a case study of the prosecution of the violation of a protective order.
Both legal archaeology and feminist theory employ “bottom up,” or grounded, theorizing; that is, they begin with specific context and move from there to generalization or abstraction, rather than the other way around. And both operate from a critical perspective that consciously challenges what we think we know about how law operates. For example, both are interested in exploring how systemic vulnerabilities, such as conscious or unconscious gender …
The Focused Attention Of Others: A Conceptual And Normative Model Of Personal And Legal Privacy, Jeffery L. Johnson
The Focused Attention Of Others: A Conceptual And Normative Model Of Personal And Legal Privacy, Jeffery L. Johnson
ExpressO
The article defends an analysis of privacy as those areas of a person’s life where s/he is entitled to immunity from the illegitimate focused attention of others. It goes on to argue that such a model encompasses the concept of privacy in colloquial and legal contexts. The article concludes with an analysis of the normative value of privacy.
Fuck, Christopher M. Fairman
Fuck, Christopher M. Fairman
ExpressO
This Article is as simple and provocative as its title suggests: it explores the legal implications of the word fuck. The intersection of the word fuck and the law is examined in four major areas: First Amendment, broadcast regulation, sexual harassment, and education. The legal implications from the use of fuck vary greatly with the context. To fully understand the legal power of fuck, the nonlegal sources of its power are tapped. Drawing upon the research of etymologists, linguists, lexicographers, psychoanalysts, and other social scientists, the visceral reaction to fuck can be explained by cultural taboo. Fuck is a taboo …
The Expressive Impact Of Patents, Timothy R. Holbrook
The Expressive Impact Of Patents, Timothy R. Holbrook
ExpressO
Patents represent a quid pro quo between the public and the inventor: in exchange for disclosing the invention, the inventor receives the right to exclude others from practicing her invention. They therefore serve as a source technical information. Patents also communicate information to markets and companies that serve to reduce various transaction costs, allowing more efficient transactions and investment. Patents consequently communicate various types of information beyond the technical.
There is no reason, however, that such messages must be limited to the technical or the pecuniary. This Article explores whether patents, like other governmental acts such as legislation, can create …
Poor Whites, Benevolent Masters, And The Ideologies Of Slavery: A Slave Accused Of Rape In The Antebellum South, Jason A. Gillmer
Poor Whites, Benevolent Masters, And The Ideologies Of Slavery: A Slave Accused Of Rape In The Antebellum South, Jason A. Gillmer
ExpressO
This Article analyzes in detail a case involving a slave accused of raping a white woman in the 1850s to offer a fresh perspective on our basic assumptions about sex and race in the slave South. Joining a new group of “cultural-legal historians,” the author looks beyond the legal language of Southern legislatures and high courts, and focuses instead on the trial record of one case: State v. Pleasant. In doing so, the author uncovers the stories of ordinary men and women – the slave, his master, his accuser, his attorney, the jurors, and others – to see how the …
God Bless The Child: The United States' Response To Domestic Juvenile Prostitution, Nesheba Kittling
God Bless The Child: The United States' Response To Domestic Juvenile Prostitution, Nesheba Kittling
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Debates About Same-Sex Marriage In Canada And The United States: Controversy Over The Evolution Of A Fundamental Social Institution, Nicholas Bala
The Debates About Same-Sex Marriage In Canada And The United States: Controversy Over The Evolution Of A Fundamental Social Institution, Nicholas Bala
Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law
No abstract provided.
Full Faith And Republican Gaurantees: Gay Marriage, Fmpa, And The Courts, John C. Eastman
Full Faith And Republican Gaurantees: Gay Marriage, Fmpa, And The Courts, John C. Eastman
Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law
No abstract provided.
Why The Politics Of Marriage Matter: Evaluating Legal And Strategic Approaches On Both Sides Of The Debate On Same-Sex Marriages, Kenneth K. Hsu
Why The Politics Of Marriage Matter: Evaluating Legal And Strategic Approaches On Both Sides Of The Debate On Same-Sex Marriages, Kenneth K. Hsu
Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law
No abstract provided.
"God's Created Order," Gender Complementarity, And The Federal Marriage Amendment, Linda C. Mcclain
"God's Created Order," Gender Complementarity, And The Federal Marriage Amendment, Linda C. Mcclain
Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law
No abstract provided.
The Supreme Court And Same-Sex Marriage: A Prediction , Robert E. Riggs
The Supreme Court And Same-Sex Marriage: A Prediction , Robert E. Riggs
Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law
No abstract provided.
Same-Sex Marriage: When Will It Reach Utah?, Robert Wintemute
Same-Sex Marriage: When Will It Reach Utah?, Robert Wintemute
Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law
No abstract provided.
Proceed At Your Own Risk: The Balance Between Academic Freedom And Sexual Harassment, John E. Matejkovic, David A. Redle
Proceed At Your Own Risk: The Balance Between Academic Freedom And Sexual Harassment, John E. Matejkovic, David A. Redle
Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Coming Out For Kids: Recognizing, Respecting, And Representing Lgbtq Youth, Barbara Fedders
Coming Out For Kids: Recognizing, Respecting, And Representing Lgbtq Youth, Barbara Fedders
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Report Of The Working Group On The Role Of Sex And Sexuality, Working Group On The Role Of Sex And Sexuality
Report Of The Working Group On The Role Of Sex And Sexuality, Working Group On The Role Of Sex And Sexuality
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Principled Parentage: Abandoning The Gender-Based Underpinnings Of Legal Parentage Analysis As Applied In The Context Of Gestational Surrogacy, Jennifer A. Kimball
Principled Parentage: Abandoning The Gender-Based Underpinnings Of Legal Parentage Analysis As Applied In The Context Of Gestational Surrogacy, Jennifer A. Kimball
ExpressO
While reproductive technology has provided new options for women who want children, our legal understanding of parentage is still informed by the traditional conception model of two parents: one male and one female. A parent who both is a biological parent and has developed a parent-child relationship with a genetic child ought to be considered a legal parent as well. This conclusion ought not to be vulnerable to attack based on the gender of the other parent; rather, each parent’s claims should be evaluated independently. When gender becomes irrelevant and we abandon the gender-based underpinnings of legal parentage analysis as …
Superstition-Based Injustice In Africa And The United States: The Use Of Provocation As A Defense For Killing Witches And Homosexuals, Jennifer Dumin
Superstition-Based Injustice In Africa And The United States: The Use Of Provocation As A Defense For Killing Witches And Homosexuals, Jennifer Dumin
ExpressO
This Article examines two different instances where strong cultural and religious beliefs suggest that an individual is justified in taking another’s life. Focusing primarily on South Africa and the United States, it argues that the rationale used to defend those who kill suspected witches and those who kill suspected homosexuals is the same – merely because a criminal holds a belief that the victim is evil, the criminal is somehow entitled to a lesser punishment. In the United States, those who readily recognize the absurdity of the witchcraft defense may have some difficulty in recognizing the same level of absurdity …