Sexual Orientation and Rights

Nicholas Bamforth is Fellow in Law at The Queen's College, Oxford, and a university lecturer in Law at Oxford University. He is co-editor of Accountability in the Contemporary Constitution (2013) and co-author of Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality and Gender: A Critique of New Natural Law (2008) and Discrimination Law: Theory and Context (2008).

• Contents: Introduction. Part I Organizing the Arguments: Sexual orientation and the politics of biology: a critique of the argument from immutability, Janet E. Halley. Part II Substantive Progressive Arguments: Sexual autonomy and the constitutional right to privacy: a case study in human rights and the unwritten constitution, David A.J. Richards; Liberal community, Ronald Dworkin; Sexual orientation and the constitution: a test case for human rights, Edwin Cameron; Hardwick and historiography, William N. Eskridge, Jr; Editorial note: The constitutional status of sexual orientation: homosexuality as a suspect classification, Harvard Law Review; Recognising new kinds of direct sex discrimination: transsexualism, sexual orientation and dress codes, Robert Wintemute; Pornographies, Leslie Green; Pornography/death: the problem of gay pornography in a straight supremacist system, Shannon Gilreath. Part III Conservative Arguments and Responses to Them: Law, morality and ’sexual orientation’, John M. Finnis; Is marriage inherently heterosexual?, Andrew Koppelman. Part IV Radical Arguments: Developing lesbian legal theory/Sexual privacy/Discourses of discrimination, Ruthann Robson; Essential rights and contested identities: sexual orientation and equality rights jurisprudence in Canada, Carl F. Stychin; On being beside oneself: on the limits of sexual automony, Judith Butler. Name index.