The Incest Horrible: Delimiting the <em>Lawrence v. Texas</em> Right to Sexual Autonomy

Is the criminalization of consensual sex between close relatives constitutional in the wake of Lawrence v. Texas and Obergefell v. Hodges? Justice Scalia thought not. The substantive due process landscape has changed dramatically in response to the LGBTQ movement. Yet, when a girl in a sexual relati...

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1. VerfasserIn: Zhou, Y. Carson (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: 2016
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