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Wedlocked: The Perils Of Marriage Equality – The Author Meets Her Readers, Katherine M. Franke
Wedlocked: The Perils Of Marriage Equality – The Author Meets Her Readers, Katherine M. Franke
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You write a book and you wonder: “will anyone read it?” This Boston University Law Review Annex Symposium on Wedlocked answers my question. Not only did “someone” read the book, but those “someones” are some of the scholars I admire most, and they took the time and thought to engage Wedlocked’s arguments in this symposium. Thank you to each of the scholars who participated in this symposium, thank you to Professor Linda McClain for inviting their participation, and thank you to James Tobin, the Online Editor for the BU Law Review, for providing a home for this conversation about …
The Curious Relationship Of Marriage And Freedom, Katherine M. Franke
The Curious Relationship Of Marriage And Freedom, Katherine M. Franke
Faculty Scholarship
Marriage is surely at a crossroad, as the chapters in this volume so richly attest. In fact, marriage may be at more than one crossroad, some pointing toward new, uncharted terrain, others amounting to intersections we have visited before. My principal interest in exploring this dynamic moment in the evolution of the institution of marriage is to better understand why and how today's marriage equality movement for same-sex couples might benefit from lessons learned by African Americans when they too were allowed to marry for the first time in the immediate post–Civil War era. I find it curious that the …
Marriage Equality In New Jersey, Suzanne B. Goldberg
Marriage Equality In New Jersey, Suzanne B. Goldberg
Faculty Scholarship
The question at the heart of the current challenge to New Jersey's marriage law is not a complicated one: Can the state maintain different rules for recognizing the relationships of gay and non-gay couples?