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Full-Text Articles in Human Rights Law
Seeking Remedies For Lgbtq Children From Destructive Parental Authority In The Era Of Religious Freedom, Roy Abernathy
Seeking Remedies For Lgbtq Children From Destructive Parental Authority In The Era Of Religious Freedom, Roy Abernathy
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
This Note explores the intersection of parents’ rights, religious rights, state’s rights, and children’s rights. This Note analyzes the development of children’s rights and how those rights may be applied to current state religious exemption policies that affect the health of LGBTQ children. This Note will argue that in the absence of direct federal legislation to stop the harm of LGBTQ children, four possible remedies may exist to protect LGBTQ children. These remedies include states asserting parens patriae authority, children asserting substantive due process claims, children utilizing partial emancipation statutes, or children utilizing mature minor exemptions, which provide a judicial …
The Many Harms Of Forced Marriage: Insights For Law From Ethnography In Northern Uganda, Myriam S. Denov, Mark A. Drumbl
The Many Harms Of Forced Marriage: Insights For Law From Ethnography In Northern Uganda, Myriam S. Denov, Mark A. Drumbl
Scholarly Articles
Harnessing an interdisciplinary framework that merges elements of law and social science, this article aims to recast the crime of forced marriage, and thereby enhance accountability, in light of knowledge acquired through ethnographic fieldwork in northern Uganda. More specifically, we draw upon the perspectives and experiences of 20 men who were "bush husbands" in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). These men were abducted by the LRA between the ages of 10 and 38 and spent between 6 and 24 years in captivity. During their time in the LRA, these men became ‘bush husbands’ with each man fathering between 1 and …
What Happens Next? Will Protection Against Gender Identity And Sexual Orientation Workplace Discrimination Expand During President Obama’S Second Term?, Sarah M. Stephens
What Happens Next? Will Protection Against Gender Identity And Sexual Orientation Workplace Discrimination Expand During President Obama’S Second Term?, Sarah M. Stephens
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Ask, Tell, But Do Not Get Greedy: The Inequalities That Pervade In The Military In Light Of The Repeal Of “Don’T Ask, Don’T Tell”, David Barnes
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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Eluding The Grim Reaper: How Section 2 Of The Defense Of Marriage Act Could Survive Strict Scrutiny, Michael Disiena
Eluding The Grim Reaper: How Section 2 Of The Defense Of Marriage Act Could Survive Strict Scrutiny, Michael Disiena
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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The Need For Change: Evaluating The Medical Necessity Of Gender Reassignment Through International Standards, Chad Ayers
The Need For Change: Evaluating The Medical Necessity Of Gender Reassignment Through International Standards, Chad Ayers
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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