Recently added articles from Brigham Young University Law Review:
From Slavery to Same-Sex Marriage: Comity Versus Public Policy in Inter-jurisdictional Recognition of Controversial Domestic Relations
Nov 01, 2008; ... TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION: COMITY VERSUS DOMESTIC POLICY INTEGRITY FOR FAMILY RELATIONS ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .... 1856 II. POSITIONING CURRENT DEBATES OVER THE IMPORTATION OF CONTROVERSIAL FORMS OF DOMESTIC RELATIONS WITHIN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN CONFLICTS LAW .....
Interstate Recognition of Adoptions: On Jurisdiction, Full Faith and Credit, and the Kinds of Challenges the Future May Bring
Nov 01, 2008; ... I. INTRODUCTION Two recent high-profile cases involving adoptions by same-sex partners highlight the potential difficulties that can arise when families composed of same-sex parents and their children cross state lines. In Einstuen v. Crutcher,1 the Tenth Circuit struck down an Oklahoma ...
The Coming Collision: Romer and State Defense of Marriage Acts
Nov 01, 2008; ... I. INTRODUCTION Andrew Koppelman's book, Same Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines? drove me to the realization that interstate choice of law questions involving same-sex marriage are entering a new and more subde stage of debate.2 The easier questions, such ...
Interstate Pluralism: The Role of Federalism in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
Nov 01, 2008; ... Abstract: This Article discusses the role of federalism in the debate over interstate recognition of same-sex marriages. It examines and rejects as simplistic the argument that the role of full faith and credit is to promote greater national uniformity. Instead, full faith and credit ...
Abortion Across State Lines
Nov 01, 2008; ... In the span of about a year in the mid-1990s, news media featured two stories about adolescent girls and abortion. In examining the somewhat sensationalized accounts of the two stories, one realizes that each could have been presented very differently. The first, from Nebraska, tells of a ...