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Time For Rights? Loving, Gay Marriage, And The Limits Of Legal Justice, Chandan Reddy Jan 2008

Time For Rights? Loving, Gay Marriage, And The Limits Of Legal Justice, Chandan Reddy

Fordham Law Review

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Gender And Nation-Building: Family Law As Legal Architecture Symposium - Nation Building: A Legal Architecture: Articles And Essays, Tracy E. Higgins, Rachel P. Fink Jan 2008

Gender And Nation-Building: Family Law As Legal Architecture Symposium - Nation Building: A Legal Architecture: Articles And Essays, Tracy E. Higgins, Rachel P. Fink

Faculty Scholarship

Although the discipline of family law in the western legal tradition transcends the public/private law boundary in many ways, it is the argument of this Essay that family law, in the private law sense of defining the rights and obligations of members of a family, forms an important part of the legal architecture of nation-building in at least three ways. First, access to the resources of the nation-state devolves through biologically and culturally gendered national boundaries, both reflecting and reinforcing the differential status of men and women in the sphere of the family. Second, the social institution of the family …


Twenty-First-Century Loving: Nationality, Gender, And Religion In The Muslim World, Adrien Katherine Wing Jan 2008

Twenty-First-Century Loving: Nationality, Gender, And Religion In The Muslim World, Adrien Katherine Wing

Fordham Law Review

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Longing For Loving, Katherine M. Franke Jan 2008

Longing For Loving, Katherine M. Franke

Fordham Law Review

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Forty Years Of Loving: Confronting Issues Of Race, Sexuality, And The Family In The Twenty-First Century, Introduction, Robin A. Lenhardt, Elizabeth B. Cooper, Sheila R. Foster, Sonia K. Katyal Jan 2008

Forty Years Of Loving: Confronting Issues Of Race, Sexuality, And The Family In The Twenty-First Century, Introduction, Robin A. Lenhardt, Elizabeth B. Cooper, Sheila R. Foster, Sonia K. Katyal

Fordham Law Review

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The Multiracial Epiphany Of Loving, Kevin Noble Maillard Jan 2008

The Multiracial Epiphany Of Loving, Kevin Noble Maillard

Fordham Law Review

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Loving Before And After The Law, Loving Before And After The Law, Angela P. Harris Jan 2008

Loving Before And After The Law, Loving Before And After The Law, Angela P. Harris

Fordham Law Review

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Beyond Analogy: Perez V. Sharp, Antimiscegenation Law, And The Fight For Same-Sex Marriage, Robin A. Lenhardt Jan 2008

Beyond Analogy: Perez V. Sharp, Antimiscegenation Law, And The Fight For Same-Sex Marriage, Robin A. Lenhardt

Faculty Scholarship

Conversations about the constitutionality of prohibitions on marriage for same-sex couples invariably reduce to the question of whether a meaningful analogy can be drawn between restrictions on same-sex marriage and antimiscegenation laws. In an effort to refocus this debate, this article considers the California Supreme Court's 1948 decision in Perez v. Sharp and its use by advocates in recent litigation to secure marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples. Opponents of marriage rights for members of the LGBT *840 community frequently assert that dispatching Perez in these cases distorts the meaning of that decision and other similar precedents by drawing …