| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages) |
| Contents |
Part I: Obergefell v. Hodges : a critical introduction / Jack M. Balkin -- The long and winding road to marriage equality -- A player, not a mirror; a catalyst, not a brick wall -- Rewriting Obergefell : a guide to the opinions -- Part II: Revised opinions in Obergefell v. Hodges -- Jack M. Balkin (judgment of the Court) -- Douglas NeJaime and Reva B. Siegel (concurring) -- Andrew Koppelman (concurring) -- Catherine Smith (concurring) -- William N. Eskridge Jr. (concurring in the judgment) -- Katherine Franke (concurring in the judgment) -- Melissa Murray (concurring) -- Sherif Girgis and Robert P. George (dissenting) -- Helen M. Alvaré (dissenting) -- John C. Harrison (dissenting) -- Jeremy Waldron (dissenting) -- Comments from the contributors -- Appendix: The Constitution of the United States of America : selected provisions -- Obergefell v. Hodges : a selected bibliography |
| Summary |
Rewriting the Supreme Court's landmark gay rights decision |
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Jack Balkin and other legal scholars, sitting as a hypothetical Supreme Court, rewrite the famous 2015 opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, which guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry. In eleven incisive opinions, the authors offer the best constitutional arguments for and against the right to same-sex marriage, and debate what Obergefell should mean for the future. In addition to serving as Chief Justice of this imaginary court, Balkin provides a critical introduction to the case. He recounts the story of the gay rights litigation that led to Obergefell, and he explains how courts respond to political mobilizations for new rights claims. The social movement for gay rights and marriage equality is a powerful example of how-through legal imagination and political struggle-arguments once dismissed as "off-the-wall" can later become established in American constitutional law |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 04, 2020) |
| Subject |
Obergefell, James -- Trials, litigation, etc
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| SUBJECT |
Obergefell, James fast |
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Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
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LAW -- Civil Rights.
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Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Balkin, J. M., editor, author.
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Alvaré, Helen M., 1960- author
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| ISBN |
9780300255782 |
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0300255780 |
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