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The Future Of Family, Max D. Siegel
The Future Of Family, Max D. Siegel
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The State organizes society into families, implicating and often ignoring various liberty and equality interests while fortifying a “traditional” family structure comprised of one man, one woman, and their mutually and exclusively conceived offspring. This structure has historically benefited the heterosexual elite within the United States, but modern advancements for sexual minorities suggest a new standard for State recognition of family. Queer liberation will erase the traditional family by rewriting its legal and social dimensions, resulting in laws and policies that track more closely with familial bonds outside a heteronormative, man-woman binary. This Article explores the ramifications of enhanced queer …
Surviving Castle Rock: The Human Rights Of Domestic Violence, Max D. Siegel
Surviving Castle Rock: The Human Rights Of Domestic Violence, Max D. Siegel
Student Articles and Papers
In 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales and held that Jessica Gonzales did not have a constitutional right to police enforcement of a restraining order. The decision highlighted the Court’s reluctance to recognize citizens’ affirmative rights, fortifying a deeply ingrained conceptualization of the Constitution of the United States as a “Negative Constitution” that creates a government with restraints on its actions and extremely limited obligations to its citizens. In August 2011, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released a report publicizing its finding that by failing to take affirmative measures to …
Black V. Simms: A Lost Opportunity To Benefit Children By Preserving Sibling Relationships When Same-Sex Families Dissolve, Natalie Amato
Black V. Simms: A Lost Opportunity To Benefit Children By Preserving Sibling Relationships When Same-Sex Families Dissolve, Natalie Amato
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Legislating After Janice M.: The Constitutionality Of Recognizing De Facto Parenthood In Maryland, Rachel Simmonsen
Legislating After Janice M.: The Constitutionality Of Recognizing De Facto Parenthood In Maryland, Rachel Simmonsen
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