Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and International Human Rights Law

Common Law Perspectives

Bibliographic Data

ID19920111
AuthorsKerry O’halloran (corresponding author), Kerry O'Halloran
Year2019
Publication date2019-10-22
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSexual Orientation, Gender Identity and International Human Rights Law (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780429442650
OpenAlexW4244542612
ISBN9780429442650
Open LibraryOL39942696M
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This book identifies, analyses and discusses the nexus of legal issues that have emerged in recent years around sexuality and gender. It audits these against specific human rights requirements and evaluates the outcomes as evidenced in the legislation and caselaw of six leading common law jurisdictions. Beginning with a snapshot of the legal definitions and sanctions associated with the traditional marital family unit, the book examines the subsequently evolving key concepts and constructs before outlining the contemporary international framework of human rights as it relates to matters of sexuality and gender. It proceeds by identifying a set of themes, including the rights to identity, to form a family, to privacy, to equality and to non-discrimination, and undertakes a comparative evaluation of how these and other themes indicate areas of commonality and difference in the approaches adopted in those common law jurisdictions, as illustrated by the associated legislation and caselaw. It then considers why this should be and assesses the implications

Aesthetics · Gender identity · Geometry · Human rights · Identity (music) · Orientation (vector space) · Political science · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Discrimination and Equality Law · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Human Rights and Development · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology

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