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Rumors Of The Sharia Threat Are Greatly Exaggerated: What American Judges Really Do With Islamic Family Law In Their Courtrooms, Asifa Quraishi-Landes Jan 2013

Rumors Of The Sharia Threat Are Greatly Exaggerated: What American Judges Really Do With Islamic Family Law In Their Courtrooms, Asifa Quraishi-Landes

NYLS Law Review

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The Continued Viability Of New York’S Juvenile Offender Act In Light Of Recent National Developments, Katherine Lazarow '12 Jan 2013

The Continued Viability Of New York’S Juvenile Offender Act In Light Of Recent National Developments, Katherine Lazarow '12

NYLS Law Review

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Marriage Rights And The Good Life: A Sociological Theory Of Marriage And Constitutional Law, Ari Ezra Waldman Jan 2013

Marriage Rights And The Good Life: A Sociological Theory Of Marriage And Constitutional Law, Ari Ezra Waldman

Articles & Chapters

This is the first in a series of three Articles investigating the underappreciated role that the social theory of Emile Durkheim plays in the quest for the freedom to marry for gay Americans. To that end, this Article begins the discussion by examining the Durkheimian legal arguments that go unnoticed in equal protection and due process claims against marriage discrimination. This Article challenges two assumptions: first, that the most effective legal argument for marriage rights is a purely liberal one, and second, that the substance and rhetoric of liberal toleration cannot exist symbiotically in the marriage discrimination debate with a …