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

This collection engages with current issues on equal protection in the USA, as seen from the perspectives of leading academics in this area. Contributors with a range of perspectives 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.

Divided into five parts, the study focusses on the connections between equal protection jurisprudence, discriminati...