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Intersection And Divergence: Some Reflections On The Warren Court, Civil Rights, And The First Amendment, Lillian R. Bevier
Intersection And Divergence: Some Reflections On The Warren Court, Civil Rights, And The First Amendment, Lillian R. Bevier
Washington and Lee Law Review
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12/7 And 9/11: War, Liberties, And The Lessons Of History, Eric L. Muller
12/7 And 9/11: War, Liberties, And The Lessons Of History, Eric L. Muller
West Virginia Law Review
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Collateral Damage In The War On Drugs, Graham Boyd
Collateral Damage In The War On Drugs, Graham Boyd
Villanova Law Review
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Drifting Apart: How Wealth And Race Segregation Are Reshaping The American Dream, Sheryll D. Cashin
Drifting Apart: How Wealth And Race Segregation Are Reshaping The American Dream, Sheryll D. Cashin
Villanova Law Review
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On Making Anti-Essentialist And Social Constructionist Arguments In Courts, Suzanne B. Goldberg
On Making Anti-Essentialist And Social Constructionist Arguments In Courts, Suzanne B. Goldberg
Faculty Scholarship
One of my most intense disagreements with another lawyer during nearly a decade of lesbian and gay rights litigation concerned social constructionism. The lawyer (a law professor, if truth be told) wanted to argue in an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court that sexual orientation, like race, was a social constructed category. He reasoned that since the Court had condemned race discrimination even while recognizing the "socio-political, rather than biological" nature of race, it would similarly be willing to invalidate a measure discriminating against lesbians, gay men and bisexuals, even while recognizing the socially constructed nature of sexual …