Gay Rights and American Law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 9, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780521012140
Subjects: Constitutional & administrative law; Political control & influence; Legal status, laws, etc; Gender & the Law; Politics / Current Events; United States; Law; North America; USA; Legal status, laws, etc; Constitutional; General; Political Science / General; Gays; Cases
First sentence: This is a book about how American appellate courts dealt with the struggle for lesbian and gay civil rights during the last two decades of the twentieth century.
Description: Presents a study of the response of state and federal appellete courts to lesbian and gay rights claims in the last two decades of the twentieth century, based on an examination of court cases, as well as the men and women who presided over them.