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

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

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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)
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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.

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