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Title: | The gate-keepers – legal isolationism and constitutional interpretation under president Obama. "Las puertas del campo – aislacionismo jurídico e interpretación constitucional en la presidencia Obama" |
Authors: | De La Rasilla Del Moral, I |
Keywords: | Same-sex marriage;Constitutional intepretation;Foreign legal sources;US Supreme Court;Comparative constitutional law;Obama |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Citation: | Revista Internacional de Pensamiento Político, (9): pp. 79 - 104, (2014) |
Abstract: | United States v. Windsor, Executor of the Estate of Spyer, et al. (26th June 2013) declares the inconstitutionality of Section III of MOMA which is a federal law that used to limit the meaning of the term “marriage” to the “legal union between a man and a woman” in the United States of America. the absence of any reference to comparative legal practice or international law in the legal reasoning of the U.S. Supreme Court in a case which is bound to have a symbolic role in the future of comparative constitutional law in the area of same-sex marriages is striking. This article examines how the interpretation of the Constitution of the United States is currently torn between two extremes: a sovereignist-type of legal aislationism and the embracement of the global law of the 21st Century. |
URI: | http://pensamientopolitico.org/index09en.php http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11334 |
ISSN: | 1885-589X |
Appears in Collections: | Publications Publications |
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