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Seven Years Later, The Promise Of Ada Remains Unfilled, Randy Lee

Randy Lee

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Out Yet Unseen: A Racial Critique Of Gay And Lesbian Legal Theory And Political Discourse, Darren Hutchinson

Darren L Hutchinson

Article employs Critical Race Theory to analyze arguments made by movements for LGBT equality and in related legal theory. Article encourages scholars and advocates to utilize more multidimensional models of social justice that do not rest on the necessary compartmentalization of race, sexual orientation, class, and other identity markers.

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The Failure Of The Freedom-Based And Utlilitarian Arguments For Assisted Suicide, Scott T. Fitzgibbon

Scott T. FitzGibbon

In recent years, numerous initiatives have been launched to promote physician-assisted suicide. Numerous statutes have been proposed, and one (in Oregon) has been enacted. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit were recently persuaded to recognize constitutionally protected rights to assisted suicide, although their decisions have been reversed by the Supreme Court. An international organization called the World Federation of Right-to-Die Societies furthers such efforts in other countries. The two most common justifications for such initiatives are that assisted suicide enhances freedom or liberty, and that …