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Assessing The History Of Exaggerated Estimates Of The Number Of Children Being Raised By Same-Sex Parents As Reported In Both Legal And Social Science Sources, Walter R. Schumm, Martin Seay, Keondria McClish, Keisha Clark, Abdulla Asiri, Nadyah Abdullah, Shuyi Huang 2016 Brigham Young University Law School

Assessing The History Of Exaggerated Estimates Of The Number Of Children Being Raised By Same-Sex Parents As Reported In Both Legal And Social Science Sources, Walter R. Schumm, Martin Seay, Keondria Mcclish, Keisha Clark, Abdulla Asiri, Nadyah Abdullah, Shuyi Huang

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Obergefell: Traditional Marriage's New Lease On Life, David Pimentel 2016 Brigham Young University Law School

The Impact Of Obergefell: Traditional Marriage's New Lease On Life, David Pimentel

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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The Results Of Deliberation, Maggie Wittlin 2016 University of Nebraska College of Law

The Results Of Deliberation, Maggie Wittlin

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

When evaluating whether to sue, prosecute, settle, or plead, trial lawyers must predict the future—they need to estimate how likely they are to win a given case in a given jurisdiction. Social scientists have used mock juror studies to produce a vast body of literature showing how different variables influence juror decision making. But few of these studies account for jury deliberation, so they present an impoverished picture of how these effects play out in trials and are of limited usefulness.

This Article helps lawyers better predict the future by presenting a novel computer model that extrapolates findings about jurors …


Punishing Sexual Fantasy, Andrew Gilden 2016 William & Mary Law School

Punishing Sexual Fantasy, Andrew Gilden

William & Mary Law Review

The Internet has created unprecedented opportunities for adults and teenagers to explore their sexual identities, but it has also created new ways for the law to monitor and punish a diverse range of taboo sexual communication. A young mother loses custody of her two children due to sexually explicit Facebook conversations. A teenager is prosecuted for child pornography crimes after sending a naked selfie to her teenage boyfriend. An NYPD officer is convicted for conspiracy to kidnap several women based on conversations he had on a “dark fetish” fantasy website. In each of these cases, online sexual exploration and fantasy …


La Construcción Contra El Desarrollo: Dos Maneras Distintas De Entender La Gestación Humana, Richard Stith 2016 Valparaiso University

La Construcción Contra El Desarrollo: Dos Maneras Distintas De Entender La Gestación Humana, Richard Stith

Law Faculty Publications

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Homosexuality - A New Ground For Annulment?, 2016 St. John's University School of Law

Homosexuality - A New Ground For Annulment?

The Catholic Lawyer

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Invalidity Of Marriage By Reason Of Sexual Anomalies, Charles J. Ritty, J.C.L. 2016 St. John's University School of Law

Invalidity Of Marriage By Reason Of Sexual Anomalies, Charles J. Ritty, J.C.L.

The Catholic Lawyer

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Sexual Offenses - Legal And Moral Considerations, S. Oley Cutler, S.J. 2016 St. John's University School of Law

Sexual Offenses - Legal And Moral Considerations, S. Oley Cutler, S.J.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Relationship Status? It's Complicated: Redefining Sexuality In The Workplace In Light Of Obergefell And The Eeoc, Patrick Bailey 2016 Florida State University College of Law

Relationship Status? It's Complicated: Redefining Sexuality In The Workplace In Light Of Obergefell And The Eeoc, Patrick Bailey

Florida State University Law Review

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A Free Speech Response To The Gay Rights/Religious Liberty Conflict, Andrew Koppelman 2016 Northwestern University

A Free Speech Response To The Gay Rights/Religious Liberty Conflict, Andrew Koppelman

Northwestern University Law Review

The most sensible reconciliation of the tension between religious liberty and public accommodations law, in the recent cases involving merchants with religious objections to same-sex marriage, would permit business owners to present their views to the world, but forbid them either to threaten to discriminate or to treat any individual customer worse than others. Even if such businesses have no statutory right to refuse to facilitate ceremonies they regard as immoral, they are unlikely to be asked to participate in those ceremonies. This solution may, however, be forbidden by the law of hostile environment harassment. That raises a severe free …


Doe V. O'Donnell And New York's Sex Offender Registration Act: The Problem Of Continued Registration Under Sora After Leaving The State, Samantha R. Millar 2016 Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Doe V. O'Donnell And New York's Sex Offender Registration Act: The Problem Of Continued Registration Under Sora After Leaving The State, Samantha R. Millar

Cardozo Law Review

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Retroactive Recognition Of Same-Sex Marriage For The Purposes Of The Confidential Marital Communications Privilege, Steven A. Young 2016 William & Mary Law School

Retroactive Recognition Of Same-Sex Marriage For The Purposes Of The Confidential Marital Communications Privilege, Steven A. Young

William & Mary Law Review

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Reading Deboer And Obergefell Through The "Moral Readings Versus Originalisms" Debate: From Constitutional "Empty Cupboards" To Evolving Understandings, Linda C. McClain 2016 Boston University School of Law

Reading Deboer And Obergefell Through The "Moral Readings Versus Originalisms" Debate: From Constitutional "Empty Cupboards" To Evolving Understandings, Linda C. Mcclain

Faculty Scholarship

This article assesses the debate over “moral reading” and “originalist” approaches to constitutional interpretation by evaluating the momentous constitutional controversy in the United States over access by same-sex couples to civil marriage. Justice Kennedy’s landmark opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), which held that such couples have a fundamental right to marry, employed a “moral reading” in emphasizing dual forms of evolving understanding: of constitutional guarantees of equality and the “promise of liberty” and of the institution of marriage. By contrast to the dissenters, the majority rejected a static, narrow reading of the fundamental right to marry – and marriage …


Not Too Separate Or Unequal: Marriage Penalty Relief After Obergefell, Mitchell L. Engler, Edward D. Stein 2016 Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Not Too Separate Or Unequal: Marriage Penalty Relief After Obergefell, Mitchell L. Engler, Edward D. Stein

Articles

Joint tax returns have generated controversy for many years. Married couples with the same joint income pay the same tax under our current system regardless of the earnings distribution between the spouses. This approach primarily rests on the idea that married couples share resources and operate as a single economic unit. Critics typically challenge this assumption and lament how marriage might significantly change a couple's taxes. Depending on their earnings breakdown, a couple's taxes could be reduced (a marital bonus for uneven-earners) or increased (a marital penalty for even-earners). These possibilities exist because the joint brackets are typically larger-but not …


Sexual Anomalies And The Law, John R. Cavanagh 2016 St. John's University School of Law

Sexual Anomalies And The Law, John R. Cavanagh

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Regulating Lolicon: Toward Japanese Compliance With Its International Legal Obligations To Ban Virtual Child Pornography, Cory L. Takeuchi 2016 University of Georgia School of Law

Regulating Lolicon: Toward Japanese Compliance With Its International Legal Obligations To Ban Virtual Child Pornography, Cory L. Takeuchi

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


State & Federal Religious Accommodation Bills: Overview Of The 2015-2016 Legislative Session, Public Rights/Private Conscience Project 2016 Columbia Law School

State & Federal Religious Accommodation Bills: Overview Of The 2015-2016 Legislative Session, Public Rights/Private Conscience Project

Center for Gender & Sexuality Law

Since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that laws limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples were unconstitutional, opponents of marriage equality and LGBT rights have largely turned their attention to the enactment of religious exemption laws. These exemptions allow individuals and organizations to violate certain federal, state, and local laws and regulations that conflict with their religious faith. While some proposed bills are state-level variations on the extremely broad and general federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), passed in 1993, a new variety of legislation provides narrower accommodations specifically relating to religious views about sex, …


Can Prostitution Law Reform Curb Sex Trafficking? Theory And Evidence On Scale Substitution, And Replacement Effects, Simon Hedlin 2016 Harvard Kennedy School

Can Prostitution Law Reform Curb Sex Trafficking? Theory And Evidence On Scale Substitution, And Replacement Effects, Simon Hedlin

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Sex trafficking, a pervasive problem in many parts of the world, has become increasingly salient to policymakers and the general public. Activists, politicians, and scholars continue to engage in debates about how best to curb it. This Article discusses one especially contentious dimension of these debates: does banning prostitution reduce sex trafficking? Or is legalizing prostitution the optimal approach? Or is there a third, better way? Proceeding both theoretically and empirically, this Article seeks to cast light on the relationship between different types of prostitution laws and the prevalence of sex trafficking and human trafficking. It attempts to make three …


Penal Welfare And The New Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, Kate Mogulescu, Aya Gruber, Amy J. Cohen 2016 Brooklyn Law School

Penal Welfare And The New Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, Kate Mogulescu, Aya Gruber, Amy J. Cohen

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Freedom To Film Pornography, Marc J. Randazza 2016 University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

The Freedom To Film Pornography, Marc J. Randazza

Nevada Law Journal

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