Beyond Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation - Legal Equality Without Identity

Informationen zum Autor Sonu Bedi is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. Bedi works in the intersection of law and political theory. His publications include Rejecting Rights (Cambridge, 2009), Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen (co-editor, 2007) and various articles on constitutional law and political philosophy. Klappentext This book argues that current equal protection jurisprudence suffers from unnoticed normative and political problems, and elucidates a competing, extant interpretation. Zusammenfassung The conventional interpretation of equality under the law singles out certain groups or classes for constitutional protection. Laws that discriminate against them are generally unconstitutional. This book argues that such an approach suffers from hitherto unnoticed normative and political problems! and it elucidates a competing! extant interpretation of equal protection jurisprudence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Identity versus Powers: 1. Suspect class and the dilemma of identity; 2. A powers review; Part II. Race: 3. How constitutional law rationalizes racism; 4. Why racial profiling is based on animus; Part III. Sex and Sexuality: 5. The puzzle of intermediate scrutiny; 6. Same-sex marriage and the disestablishment of marriage.

Product details

• Authors: Sonu Bedi, Sonu (Dartmouth College Bedi, Bedi Sonu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2013
• EAN: 9781107018358
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01835-8
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Civil Rights, Social discrimination & inequality, Jurisprudence & general issues, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Jurisprudence and general issues, Social discrimination and social justice