Daniel Pinello's exhaustive study analyzes how federal and state appellate courts treated the civil rights claims of lesbians and gay men between 1981 and 2000. Pinello examines 1,439 votes by 849 appellate judges in 398 decisions and opinions from 87 courts in all federal jurisdictions and 47 states. His investigation reveals that legal variables; judges' personal attributes; environmental factors (juridical ideology, consensual sodomy statutes, and gay civil rights laws); institutional determinants (judicial selection method and term length); and time and interest group participation were significant forces in judicial policymaking.
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"[A] highly provocative empirical analysis...The project is striking..." Michael R. Siebecker, Hofstra University School of Law, Political Science Quarterly
"This book provides not only an excellent survey of recent judicial developments in the law of gay rights but, even more importantly, a superb empirical study of the determinants of judicial decision making, using the context of gay rights cases. Unlike most research in this field, Pinello carefully considers the role played by the law and precedent in court opinions. His analysis is based on extensive data. I highly commend it to scholars interested in the factors involved in judicial policymaking, as well as those concerned about gay rights law. It is simply the single best study of judicial decision making of which I am aware." Frank Cross, University of Texas at Austin
Gay Rights and American Law makes an impressive contribution both to the contemporary debate over lesbian and gay civil rights and to the scholarly literature on the politics of judicial choice. This intriguing volume comprehensively describes critical federal and state appellate decisions adjudicating the rights claims of homosexuals. But perhaps more importantly, the book provides a scientifically rigorous analysis of judges' votes in those cases and then places its empirical findings in a framework informing extant theories of judicial choice. The work is systematic, creative, and insightful. Without question, Gay Rights and American Law is a "must read" for anyone concerned with the fascinating politics of judicial policymaking or the struggle for civil rights in America. Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State Univerity
This marvelous, well-argued book by a political scientist rigorously tests various assumptions about when American courts and politicians advance, and when they retard, legal recognition of the human rights of gay and lesbian persons. No serious activist, scholar, or citizen can ignore its findings (for example, the crucial importance to gay and lesbian rights of both presidential judicial appointments and the diversity of judges). David A.J. Richards, New York University
"Gay Rights and American Law is an excellent analysis of judicial decision-making on gay rights issues that should be read by public law researchers, whether their focus is quantitative or qualitative analysis." Law and Politics Book Review
"This pathbreaking work presents a thorough analysis of a comprehensive dataset of the 393 state and federal appellate court decisions 'essential' to gay and lesbian rights during the last two decades of the 20th century and the judges who cast votes in them.... Essential." Choice
"In this comprehensive examination of appellate court decisions affecting gay and lesbian civil rights during the last two decades of the twentieth century, Daniel Pinello uses statistical analysis to illustrate the interplay of diverse factors influencing judicial decisionmaking...Civil rights activists, legal practitioners, political scientists, and legal scholars should all take note of this comprehensive and thought-provoking book." Harvard Law Review
"In Gay Rights and American Law, Daniel R. Pinello demonstrates the value of quantitative analysis to legal scholarship. The book provides important analysis of the recent legal history of the lesbian and gay rights movement. More generally, it supplies insight into, and valuable analysis of, the judicial decisionmaking process... Throughout this detailed and engaging work of empirical resesarch, Pinello conveys his impatience with the current rate of progress towards consistent American judicial respect for gay and lesbian relationships and individuals." Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
"This book provides not only an excellent survey of recent judicial developments in the law of gay rights but, even more importantly, a superb empirical study of the determinants of judicial decision making, using the context of gay rights cases. Unlike most research in this field, Pinello carefully considers the role played by the law and precedent in court opinions. His analysis is based on extensive data. I highly commend it to scholars interested in the factors involved in judicial policymaking, as well as those concerned about gay rights law. It is simply the single best study of judicial decision making of which I am aware." Frank Cross, University of Texas at Austin
Gay Rights and American Law makes an impressive contribution both to the contemporary debate over lesbian and gay civil rights and to the scholarly literature on the politics of judicial choice. This intriguing volume comprehensively describes critical federal and state appellate decisions adjudicating the rights claims of homosexuals. But perhaps more importantly, the book provides a scientifically rigorous analysis of judges' votes in those cases and then places its empirical findings in a framework informing extant theories of judicial choice. The work is systematic, creative, and insightful. Without question, Gay Rights and American Law is a "must read" for anyone concerned with the fascinating politics of judicial policymaking or the struggle for civil rights in America. Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State Univerity
This marvelous, well-argued book by a political scientist rigorously tests various assumptions about when American courts and politicians advance, and when they retard, legal recognition of the human rights of gay and lesbian persons. No serious activist, scholar, or citizen can ignore its findings (for example, the crucial importance to gay and lesbian rights of both presidential judicial appointments and the diversity of judges). David A.J. Richards, New York University
"Gay Rights and American Law is an excellent analysis of judicial decision-making on gay rights issues that should be read by public law researchers, whether their focus is quantitative or qualitative analysis." Law and Politics Book Review
"This pathbreaking work presents a thorough analysis of a comprehensive dataset of the 393 state and federal appellate court decisions 'essential' to gay and lesbian rights during the last two decades of the 20th century and the judges who cast votes in them.... Essential." Choice
"In this comprehensive examination of appellate court decisions affecting gay and lesbian civil rights during the last two decades of the twentieth century, Daniel Pinello uses statistical analysis to illustrate the interplay of diverse factors influencing judicial decisionmaking...Civil rights activists, legal practitioners, political scientists, and legal scholars should all take note of this comprehensive and thought-provoking book." Harvard Law Review
"In Gay Rights and American Law, Daniel R. Pinello demonstrates the value of quantitative analysis to legal scholarship. The book provides important analysis of the recent legal history of the lesbian and gay rights movement. More generally, it supplies insight into, and valuable analysis of, the judicial decisionmaking process... Throughout this detailed and engaging work of empirical resesarch, Pinello conveys his impatience with the current rate of progress towards consistent American judicial respect for gay and lesbian relationships and individuals." Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
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Gay Rights and American Law describes and analyzes how federal and state appellate courts treated the civil-rights claims of lesbians and gay men between 1981 and 2000. The study examines 1,439 votes by 849 appellate judges in 398 decisions and opinions from 87 courts in all federal jurisdictions and 47 states. The investigation reveals that legal variables , judges' personal attributes, environmental factors (juridical ideology, consensual sodomy statutes, and gay civil rights laws), institutional determinants (judicial-section method and term length), time and interest-group participation were significant forces in judicial policymaking.
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This is a book about how American appellate courts dealt with the struggle for lesbian and gay civil rights during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gay family issue, sodomy constitutionality, consensual sodomy law, nonjudicial office, judicial behavior models, marginal error reduction, gay interest group, gay civil rights law, personal attribute information, gay rights claims, gay litigants, empirical legal scholarship, logistic regression statistics, federalism variables, male litigant, positive precedent, negative precedent, environmental ideology, state constitutional issue, opposing gay rights, judicial votes, judicial federalism, privacy clause, progeny cases, attitudinal forces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, First Amendment, African American, Court of Civil Appeals, Minority Positive, Roman Catholic, South Dakota, Emma Posik, Jewish Positive, Catholic Negative, North Carolina, Steve Kritis, Susan Stemler, Attitudinal Age Negative, Female Positive, Florence Police Department, Impact Legal Positive, Mountain View Police Department, New Jersey, Professor Wesson, South Carolina, Test of Stare Decisis, Borough of Minersville, Control Federal New!
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This is a book about how American appellate courts dealt with the struggle for lesbian and gay civil rights during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gay family issue, sodomy constitutionality, consensual sodomy law, nonjudicial office, judicial behavior models, marginal error reduction, gay interest group, gay civil rights law, personal attribute information, gay rights claims, gay litigants, empirical legal scholarship, logistic regression statistics, federalism variables, male litigant, positive precedent, negative precedent, environmental ideology, state constitutional issue, opposing gay rights, judicial votes, judicial federalism, privacy clause, progeny cases, attitudinal forces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, First Amendment, African American, Court of Civil Appeals, Minority Positive, Roman Catholic, South Dakota, Emma Posik, Jewish Positive, Catholic Negative, North Carolina, Steve Kritis, Susan Stemler, Attitudinal Age Negative, Female Positive, Florence Police Department, Impact Legal Positive, Mountain View Police Department, New Jersey, Professor Wesson, South Carolina, Test of Stare Decisis, Borough of Minersville, Control Federal New!
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- Gays and Lesbians in the Democratic Process by Ellen D. B. Riggle on 7 pages
- The Politics of Gay Rights (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) by Craig A. Rimmerman on 6 pages
- South Dakota (Portrait of America) by Kathleen Thompson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Gays and the Military by Marc Wolinsky in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Supreme Court by Lawrence Baum on page 121, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage by Daniel R. Pinello in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy by The Honorable Richard A. Posner on page 120
- Out of the Closets and into the Courts: Legal Opportunity Structure and Gay Rights Litigation by Ellen Ann Andersen in Back Matter
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