Accommodating Empire: Comparing French and American Paths to the Legalization of Gay Marriage [Draft]
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Ghachem, Malick
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2015
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Southern California Law Review
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University of Southern California
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Ghachem, Malick W. "Accommodating Empire: Comparing French and American Paths to the Legalization of Gay Marriage [Draft]" forthcoming in Southern California Law Review, 2015.
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Abstract
Dating back to the revolutionary era, France and the United States have vied, sometimes directly, in a longstanding contest for leadership status in the area of human rights. Where gay marriage is concerned, however, it would be more accurate to describe both nations as followers rather than leaders. In late April 2013, about twelve years after the Netherlands became the world’s first nation to legalize same-sex marriage,1 and on the heels of large and passionate protests by social conservatives, France became the fourteenth such country, eliminating the Civil Code’s gender-specific language barring equal marriage.2 Not to be outdone, United States, acting through judicial rather than legislative channels, followed suit in June 2013 with United States v. Windsor, striking down the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”).
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section
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