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Courts and LGBTQ+ rights in an age of judicial retrenchment / Rehan Abeyratne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abeyratne, Rehan, author.
- Series:
- Oxford comparative constitutionalism.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford comparative constitutionalism
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--China--Hong Kong.
- Sexual minorities.
- Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--India.
- Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Sexual rights--China--Hong Kong.
- Sexual rights.
- Sexual rights--India.
- Sexual rights--United States.
- Comparative law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- A comparative study of the United States, India, and Hong Kong, this book explores how courts often use LGBTQ+ rights to demonstrate their rhetorical commitment to liberal and global constitutionalism, even as their judgments fall short of, or even undermine, those ideals.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Setting the Scene
- Structure of the Book
- Theoretical Framework and Methodology
- Background
- Scholarly Contribution
- Case Selection and Methodology
- Scope and Limitations
- LGBTQ+ Rights, Culture Wars, and Polarization in the United States
- Introduction
- The Gradual Recognition of LGBTQ+ Rights (1986–2015)
- LGBTQ+ Rights in the Context of Two Culture Wars
- Polarization, Trump, and the Makings of Partisan Supreme Court
- LGBTQ+ Rights in the Second Roberts Court (2018–23)
- Conclusion: Institutional Self-Preservation v. Partisan Decision-Making
- LGBTQ+ Rights Amid Institutional Crises and Rising Ethnonationalism in India
- LGBTQ+ Rights in an Era of Transition (2001–14)
- The Shift in Indian Constitutionalism under Modi (2014–19)
- Privacy and the Decriminalization of Same-Sex Relations
- An Institution in Crisis and a Shift on LGBTQ+ Rights (2019–23)
- Conclusion: Institutional and Reputational Self-Preservation
- LGBTQ+ Rights, Economic Freedom, and the Remaining Fragments of Liberal Constitutionalism in Hong Kong
- Constitutional Adjudication under “One Country, Two Systems” (1997–2019)
- Developing a Progressive LGBTQ+ Rights Jurisprudence (2006–19)
- From Hybrid to Authoritarian (2019–21)
- LGBTQ+ Rights in Authoritarian Hong Kong
- Conclusion— An Uneasy Truce
- The Exceptionalism of LGBTQ+ Rights
- From Progressive to Self-Preserving
- The Changing Audiences for LGBTQ+ Rights Judgments
- Pinkwashing or Necessary Adaptation?
- The Future of LGBTQ+ Rights and Liberal Constitutionalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 5, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-199504-5
- 0-19-888828-7
- OCLC:
- 1504387824
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