Equality for same-sex couples : the legal recognition of gay partnerships in Europe and the United States /
During the past three decades, nations all over the world have been debating whether to allow same-sex couples to marry, or at least grant these couples various rights associated with marriage. In Equality for Same-Sex Couples, Yuval Merin presents the first comparative study of the legal regulation...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Changing institution of marriage and the exclusion of same-sex couples
- Registered partnerships in the Nordic countries
- Same-sex partnerships in the Netherlands
- Recognition of same-sex partnerships in other European countries
- Cohabitation model
- Same-sex partnerships in the United States
- Contrasts between the models of recognition and the status of same-sex partnerships in the United States and Northern Europe
- Domestic partnership, registered partnership, and marriage
- Alternatives to marriage and the doctrine of separate but equal
- Feasibility of opening up marriage to same-sex couples
- Conclusion.