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Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law

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2006

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Symposium On Abolishing Civil Marriage: An Introduction, Edward Stein Jan 2006

Symposium On Abolishing Civil Marriage: An Introduction, Edward Stein

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This introduction sets the stage for discussion of two papers that make different arguments for the abolition of civil marriage: Edward A. Zelinsky, Deregulating Marriage: The Pro-Marriage Case for Abolishing Civil Marriage, 27 Cardozo L. Rev. 1161-1220 (2006), and Daniel A. Crane, A “Judeo-Christian” Argument for Privatizing Marriage, id. at 1221-1259. While the institution of marriage has undergone substantial changes over the last one hundred years in terms of who may marry, the benefits and duties of marriage, the rules for dissolving marriage, and the social assumptions relating to marriage, its adaptability and elasticity has been demonstrated by the fact …


Text, Tradition, And Reason In Comparative Perspective: An Introduction, Adam Seligman, Suzanne Last Stone Jan 2006

Text, Tradition, And Reason In Comparative Perspective: An Introduction, Adam Seligman, Suzanne Last Stone

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