Sexual Orientation : : An Essay on International Human Rights Law.

• Author: Heinze, Eric.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1995.; ©1995.
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (438 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE: THE OLDEST AND NEWEST OF PROBLEMS -- Chapter 1: Less Equal? -- 1.1 The Human Rights Context -- 1.2 Synopsis -- 1.3 Purposes -- Chapter 2: Sexual Orientation and Sexual Minorities -- 2.1 The Normative-Heterosexual Paradigm of Social Organization -- 2.2 The Emergence of Sexual Minorities -- 2.3 The Concept of Sexual Orientation -- 2.4 The Concept of Sexual Minorities -- 2.4.1 The General Concept of Minorities -- 2.4.2 The General Concept Applied to Sexual Minorities -- 2.5 Definitions -- PART 2: FROM WESTERN CONCEPTS TO UNIVERSAL LAW? -- Chapter 3: The Problem of Universality -- 3.1 The Analogy to Universal Human Rights Law in General -- 3.2 The Analogy to the Social Sciences in General -- Chapter 4: Rights, New and Old -- 4.1 Three Generations of Rights -- 4.2 Historical Location of Rights of Sexual Orientation -- Chapter 5: Practical Concerns -- 5.1 The Political Functions of Human Rights Law -- 5.2 The Moral, Symbolic and Didactic Functions of Human Rights Law -- Chapter 6: Rights of Sexual Orientation in the World Today -- 6.1 The Expansive Recognition Model -- 6.2 The Intermediate Recognition Model -- 6.3 The Minimum Recognition Model -- 6.4 The Mixed Recognition Model -- PART 3: METHODOLOGY -- Chapter 7: Rights, New and Extant -- 7.1 The Positivist Approach -- 7.2 The Naturalist Approach -- 7.3 The Dialectic of Positivism and Naturalism -- Chapter 8: Jurisprudential Foundations -- 8.1 The Principle of Strict Egalitarianism -- 8.2 The Principle of Extant Rights -- 8.3 The Principle of Fundamental Rights -- 8.4 General Rule -- PART 4: FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION -- Chapter 9: Personhood -- 9.1 Sexuality, Sexual Orientation, and Personhood -- 9.2 The Role of the Social Sciences -- Chapter 10: Privacy.

10.1 Aspects of the Right -- 10.1.1 The Decisional Aspect -- 10.1.2 The Spatial Aspect -- 10.2 Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights -- 10.3 Jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court -- 10.3.1 The Decisional Aspect Applied to Private, Consensual, Sexual Acts -- 10.3.2 The Spatial Aspect Applied to Private, Consensual, Sexual Acts -- Chapter 11: Liberty -- 11.1 Three Conditions of Liberty -- 11.1.1 Neminem laedere -- 11.1.2 Palpable Harm -- 11.1.3 Denial and Limitation -- 11.2 Unjustified Limits on Rights of Sexual Orientation -- 11.2.1 Jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court -- 11.2.2 Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights -- 11.2.3 Sham Limitations -- 11.2.4 The Right to Be Different -- 11.3 Justified Limits on Rights of Sexual Orientation -- Chapter 12: Equality -- 12.1 Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation -- 12.2 General and Specific Equality -- 12.3 The Jurisprudence of "New" Categories -- 12.4 Discrimination -- 12.4.1 Invidious Treatment -- 12.4.2 Systemic Discrimination -- 12.5 A Sample Model -- 12.5.1 Levels of Scrutiny -- 12.5.2 Sexual Orientation as a Suspect Classification -- 12.6 Equality: Between Hegemony and Subsidiarity -- Chapter 13: Towards a Jurisprudence of Sexual Minorities -- 13.1 The Legal Concept of Minorities -- 13.1.1 Varieties of Rights -- 13.1.2 Minority Rights -- 13.1.3 Definitions -- 13.2 Towards a Legal Concept of Sexual Minorities -- Chapter 14: Other Rights -- 14.1 The Scope of Rights: Third-Party Applicability (Drittwirkung) -- 14.2 Rights against Inhuman or Degrading Treatment -- 14.3 Rights of Thought and Conscience -- 14.4 Rights of Speech and Expression -- 14.4.1 Sexual Minorities as "Subjects" of Speech and Expression -- 14.4.2 Sexual Minorities as "Objects" of Speech and Expression -- 14.5 Rights of Association -- 14.6 Criminal Law.

14.6.1 Sexual Minorities as "Subjects" of Criminal Law -- 14.6.2 Sexual Minorities as "Objects" of Criminal Law . -- 14.7 Employment Rights -- 14.7.1 Public Employment -- 14.7.2 Private Employment -- 14.8 Goods and Services -- 14.9 Sexual Orientation and Young People -- 14.9.1 Young People as "Subjects" of Rights of Sexual Orientation -- 14.9.2 Young People as "Objects" of Rights of Sexual Orientation -- 14.10 Travel, Immigration and Asylum -- PART 5: TOWARDS POSITIVE LAW -- Chapter 15: A Model Declaration -- Chapter 16: Recommendations -- 16.1 Further Research -- 16.2 Further Action -- APPENDIX - Excerpts from International Human Rights Instruments -- WORKS CITED -- 1. Cases -- 2. Books -- 3. Articles and Other Works -- INDEX.