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

This book argues that current equal protection jurisprudence suffers from unnoticed normative and political problems, and elucidates a competing, extant interpretation.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sonu Bedi, Sonu (Dartmouth College Bedi, Bedi Sonu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107515406
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51540-6
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law