Studies in Law, Politics, and Society

Austin Sarat is William Nelson CromwellProfessor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, USA. He isalso 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. The Emergence of Marriage Equality and the Sad Demise of Civil Unions; Cyril Ghosh2. Community Voices and Speaking Out: Rights Talk and the LGBTQ Community in the 1980s; Erin M. Adam3. Reproductive Justice, Vaccine Refusal, and the Uneven Landscape of Choice; Jennifer A. Reich 4. Rights of the Unvaccinated Child; Dorit Rubenstein Reiss5. Policing Pleasure: A Socio-Legal Framework for Understanding the Social Control of Desire; Elizabeth Chiarello6. Data Re-Use and the Problem of Group Identity; Leslie P. Francis and John G. Francis

This year's volume contains four papers from the symposium Health and the Law: Protection, Promotion, Paternalism. They cover reproductive justice, vaccine refusal, and the uneven landscape of choice; rights of the un-vaccinated child; policing pleasure: the socio-legal framework for understanding the social control of desire; and data refusal and the problem of group identity. Two general papers discuss the emergence of marriage equality and the sad demise of civil unions, and "community voices" and "speaking out:" rights talk and the LGBTQ community in the 1980s.