Beyond race, sex, and sexual orientation : legal equality without identity /

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Author / Creator:Bedi, Sonu, author.
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (x, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12597268
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Varying Form of Title:Beyond Race, Sex, & Sexual Orientation
ISBN:9781139087643 (ebook)
9781107018358 (hardback)
9781107515406 (paperback)
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Summary:The conventional interpretation of equality under the law singles out certain groups or classes for constitutional protection: women, racial minorities, and gays and lesbians. The United States Supreme Court calls these groups 'suspect classes'. Laws that discriminate against them are generally unconstitutional. While this is a familiar account of equal protection jurisprudence, this book argues that this approach suffers from hitherto unnoticed normative and political problems. The book elucidates a competing, extant interpretation of equal protection jurisprudence that avoids these problems. The interpretation is not concerned with suspect classes but rather with the kinds of reasons that are already inadmissible as a matter of constitutional law. This alternative approach treats the equal protection clause like any other limit on governmental power, thus allowing the Court to invalidate equality-infringing laws and policies by focusing on their justification rather than the identity group they discriminate against.
Other form:Print version: 9781107018358

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