Controversies in equal protection cases in America : race, gender and sexual orientation /

Oake,Richardson,Anne

Controversies in equal protection cases in America : race, gender and sexual orientation / edited by Anne Richardson Oakes, Birmingham City University, UK. - viii, 317 pages ; 25 cm. - Controversies in American constitutional law .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : equal protection and the problem of identity / Anne Richardson Oakes -- Original sins, continuing wrongs: equality, democracy and supremacy in the United States under judicial review / Francisco Valdes -- Equal protection's dead end, or the slave's undying claim / Sora Han -- Equal protection as intentional blindness / Ian F. Haney L�opez -- Judging opportunity lost: Race-based affirmative action and equality jurisprudence after Fisher v. University of Texas / Mario L. Barnes, Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Erwin Chemerinsky -- The troubled adolescence of city of Boerne v. Fores / William D. Araiza -- Racial liberalism and school desegregation jurisprudence: Notes toward a more usable past / Michael Paris -- Supreme Court opinions on equal protection in education and their use of social science research / Janet W. Schofield and Pat K. Chew -- The state's compelling interest in substantive equality / Jennifer S. Hendricks -- Ball of con(stitutional)fusion : the Supreme Court's evolving gay rights jurisprudence / John G. Culhane -- Unequal protection for sex and gender nonconformists / Julie A. Greenberg -- Bringing equal protection out of the tax closet / Anthony C. Infanti -- Equal protection and the immigrant : legislating our way towards two Americas / Laura A. Hern�andez -- Applying an equal protection methodology to speech and religion cases / Patrick M. Garry -- Equal protection and environmental justice : a matter of unconscious injustice? / Haydn Davies -- Afterword : from identity to the responsive state / Martha Albertson Fineman.

9781409454274 (hardback : alk. paper)

2014044644


Discrimination--Law and legislation--United States.
Equality before the law--United States.

KF4755 / .C664 2015

342.7308/5