Special Issue

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, USA. He is also a Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor. He has written, co-written, or edited more than fifty books in the fields of law and political science.

• 1. Differentiating Assimilation; Douglas NeJaime 2. Embodying the Law: Negotiating Disability Identity and Civil Rights; Megan A. Conway 3. Being Exceptional; Zanita E. Fenton 4. Feminist Constitutionalism and the Entrenchment of Motherhood; Julie C. Suk 5. Comment: Differences and (In)equalities; Mark E. Brandon

Contributed by law and disability studies scholars from the US and drawn from the symposium on Law and the Imagining of Difference, the five essays in this volume address how law responds to the claims of difference, how and when it recognizes difference and accommodates it, and when and why this recognition and accommodation are resisted. Specifically, they discuss law in relation to disability, same-sex marriage, and gender equality, including the Americans with Disabilities Act.