Equality for Same-Sex Couples: The Legal Recognition of Gay Partnerships in Europe and the United States
Yuval Merin
Abstract
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. This book presents a comparative study of the legal regulation of same-sex partnerships worldwide, as well as a unique survey of the status of same-sex couples in Europe. The author begins by providing a historical overview of the transformation of marriage from antiquity to the present, and then identifies and critically compares four principal models for the legal regulation and recognition of same-se ... More
Keywords: same-sex marriage, legal regulation, civil marriage, registered partnership, domestic partnership, cohabitation, separate but equal, African Americans, constitutionality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2002 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226520315 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: March 2013 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226520339.001.0001 |
