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Articles 1 - 13 of 13
Full-Text Articles in Jurisprudence
Thinking Critically About Equality: Government Can Make Us Equal, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit
Thinking Critically About Equality: Government Can Make Us Equal, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit
Nancy Levit
As kids we called it having to use the old noodle: needing to think real hard about something that was real hard to think about. It was the kind of thinking that would cause your face to get all scrunched up, and if you didn't stop or if someone didn't stop you - it would eventually make your head hurt. The expression came from our families when we figured something out: that's using your old noodle, they'd tell us. The noodle we eventually understood to be our brains, which, we reckon, do look something like noodles, though we were quite …
A Different Kind Of Sameness: Beyond Formal Equality And Antisubordination Principles In Gay Legal Theory And Constitutional Doctrine, Nancy Levit
Nancy Levit
Gay legal theory is at a crossroads reminiscent of the sameness/difference debate in feminist circles and the integrationist debate in critical race theory. Formal equality theorists take the heterosexual model as the norm and then seek to show that gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals - except for their choice of partners - are just like heterosexuals. Antisubordination theorists attack the heterosexual model itself and seek to show that a society that insists on such a model is unjust. Neither of these strategies is wholly satisfactory. The formal equality model will fail to bring about fundamental reforms as long as sexual …
Connecting Grounds Of Discrimination To Real People's Real Experiences, Dianne Pothier
Connecting Grounds Of Discrimination To Real People's Real Experiences, Dianne Pothier
Dianne Pothier Collection
From the outset, the prevailing approach to human rights statutes in Canada has been predicated on a closed list of prohibited grounds of discrimination. The early drafts of s. 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms likewise had a closed list of enumerated grounds, but the final version qualifies those grounds as "in particular", opening the door for a broader application of s. 15. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court of Canada, with the exception of Justice L'Heureux-Dube, has insisted that establishing a prohibited ground, either enumerated or analogous, is a requisite condition to a s. 15 breach. In the …
Foreward, Adrienne D. Davis, Joan C. Williams
Foreward, Adrienne D. Davis, Joan C. Williams
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, Martha Albertson Fineman
Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, Martha Albertson Fineman
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, Martha Albertson Fineman
Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, Martha Albertson Fineman
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Foreward, Adrienne D. Davis, Joan C. Williams
Foreward, Adrienne D. Davis, Joan C. Williams
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Cracking Foundations As Feminist Method , Katharine T. Bartlett
Cracking Foundations As Feminist Method , Katharine T. Bartlett
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Personal Rights And Rule Dependence: Can The Two Co-Exist?, Matthew D. Adler
Personal Rights And Rule Dependence: Can The Two Co-Exist?, Matthew D. Adler
Faculty Scholarship
Constitutional doctrine is typically "rule-dependent." Typically, a constitutional litigant will not prevail unless she can show that a particular kind of legal rule is in force, e.g., a rule that discriminates against "suspect classes" in violation of the Equal Protection Clause, or that targets speech in violation of the First Amendment, or that is motivated by a religious purpose in violation of the Establishment Clause. Further, the litigant must typically establish a violation of her "personal rights." The Supreme Court has consistently stated that a reviewing court should not invalidate an unconstitutional governmental action at the instance of a claimant …
Cracking Foundations As Feminist Method , Katharine T. Bartlett
Cracking Foundations As Feminist Method , Katharine T. Bartlett
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
A Different Kind Of Sameness: Beyond Formal Equality And Antisubordination Strategies In Gay Legal Theory, Nancy Levit
A Different Kind Of Sameness: Beyond Formal Equality And Antisubordination Strategies In Gay Legal Theory, Nancy Levit
Faculty Works
Gay legal theory is at a crossroads reminiscent of the sameness/difference debate in feminist circles and the integrationist debate in critical race theory. Formal equality theorists take the heterosexual model as the norm and then seek to show that gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals - except for their choice of partners - are just like heterosexuals. Antisubordination theorists attack the heterosexual model itself and seek to show that a society that insists on such a model is unjust. Neither of these strategies is wholly satisfactory. The formal equality model will fail to bring about fundamental reforms as long as sexual …
Equality Trouble: Sameness And Difference In Twentieth-Century Race Law, Angela Harris
Equality Trouble: Sameness And Difference In Twentieth-Century Race Law, Angela Harris
Angela P Harris
No abstract provided.
Gender Violence, Race, And Criminal Justice, Angela P. Harris
Gender Violence, Race, And Criminal Justice, Angela P. Harris
Angela P Harris
No abstract provided.