Controversies in Equal Protection Cases in America: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation

ISBN-13: 9781138732179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 328 str.

Anne Richardson Oakes

Opis

This collection engages with current issues on equal protection in the USA as seen from the perspectives of leading academics in this area. The contributors interrogate the legal, theoretical and factual assumptions which shape case law and consider the extent to which they satisfactorily address contemporary concerns with social hierarchies and norms. These themes and analyses bridge the gap between theory and practice and are among some of the most contentious contributions to the current equal protection debate in America.

Recenzje

"Contributors to Oakes’s volume pursue an empirical and theoretical examination of equal protection in the United States, focusing on the connections between equal protection jurisprudence; discrimination in its contemporary manifestations; the implications of identity politics; and the moral and political conceptualizations of equality."
Law and Social Inquiry Journal

O autorze

Anne Richardson Oakes is Reader in American Legal Studies in the School of Law Birmingham City University. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in History and Politics and a PhD awarded for her research into the desegregation of the Boston public schools. She is qualified as a solicitor and has a professional legal background and extensive teaching experience in the fields of property law and public law. Her current teaching is U.S. Constitutional Law which she teaches on the LLB program. Her specialist areas of interest include the Equal Protection jurisprudence of US Supreme Court with particular reference to desegregation (special interest: the Boston public schools), the recent affirmative action cases and interdisciplinary perspectives. She also has an interest in judicial ethics. She is Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of American Legal Studies and a member of the Society of Legal Scholars and the Law Society.