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Sexual Orientation As A Human Rights Issue Incanada 1969-1985, Philip Girard
Sexual Orientation As A Human Rights Issue Incanada 1969-1985, Philip Girard
Dalhousie Law Journal
Equality is a protean concept. Even if one has taken a position on the equality of opportunity versus equality of outcomes debate, there remains the problem of deciding what equality means in particular contexts: racial equality, equality between the sexes, between those with and without mental or physical disability, and so on. Finally, there is the issue of which groups in society are entitled to "equality", whatever it may mean. Given the open-ended nature of the equality guarantees contained in section 15 of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it is clear that groups other than those specifically mentioned therein …
Sexual Orientation Employment Discrimination: The Freedom Of Private Employers To Discriminate, Holly Hecker
Sexual Orientation Employment Discrimination: The Freedom Of Private Employers To Discriminate, Holly Hecker
In the Public Interest
No abstract provided.
Douglass V. Hustler Magazine, Inc.: Anatomy Of Privacy For A Public Figure In Illinois, 19 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1053 (1986), Howard L. Teplinsky
Douglass V. Hustler Magazine, Inc.: Anatomy Of Privacy For A Public Figure In Illinois, 19 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1053 (1986), Howard L. Teplinsky
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Bowers V. Hardwick: The Constitutionality Of Georgia's Sodomy Statute, 20 J. Marshall L. Rev. 325 (1986), James J. Bromberek
Bowers V. Hardwick: The Constitutionality Of Georgia's Sodomy Statute, 20 J. Marshall L. Rev. 325 (1986), James J. Bromberek
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Women And The Law, Elizabeth Holtzman
Sterilization Of Mentally Retarded Persons: Reproductive Rights And Family Privacy, Elizabeth S. Scott
Sterilization Of Mentally Retarded Persons: Reproductive Rights And Family Privacy, Elizabeth S. Scott
Faculty Scholarship
Sterilization is one of the most frequently chosen forms of contraception in the world; many persons who do not want to have children select this simple, safe, and effective means of avoiding unwanted pregnancy. For individuals who are mentally disabled, however, sterilization has more ominous associations. Until recently, involuntary sterilization was used as a weapon of the state in the war against mental deficiency. Under eugenic sterilization laws in effect in many states, retarded persons were routinely sterilized without their consent or knowledge.
Sterilization law has undergone a radical transformation in recent years. Influenced by a distaste for eugenic sterilization …