Scholars across a range of disciplines have increasingly argued that the intractability of
political conflicts is rooted in the proliferation of competing historical narratives. These …

Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina Heyer examines
three case studies—Germany, Japan, and the United Nations—to trace the evolution of a …

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any
reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-served not …

This essay describes how individuals have increasingly used the language of medicine to
seek legal rights and benefits. These claims have often been applied to conditions that …

This research examines attitudes about homosexuality among members of historically black
sororities. Drawing on 20 in-depth interviews, findings indicate that although most …

The latest volume in the Core Concepts in Higher Education series explores the complexity
of law in higher education and both the limits and opportunities of how law can promote …

This article provides a queer, transnational account of the US Supreme Court's 1965
articulation, in Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 US 479 (1965), of a constitutional right to …

ABSTRACT “Like race” analogies have been critiqued from various perspectives, and this
article enters that conversation to engage those criticisms from a rhetorical perspective. In …

Can the government take away rights or benefits from individuals or entities once they have
been granted? In recent cases involving hot button issues such as same-sex marriage …

This chapter explores the complex relation of sexuality, gender, and the law from the
perspectives of legal philosophy, legal gender studies, and queer legal theory. Its point of …