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Law Center professor pens op-ed piece on California Constitution
Southern Univeristy Law Center (SULC) Carlo Pedrioli's academic paper has recently been published: In re Marriage Cases, Same-Sex Marriage, and the California Supreme Court as Critical Social Movement Ally, 33 S. Cal. Interdisc. L.J. 137 (2023).
The paper draws upon social movement theory in the field of communication to examine how the California Supreme Court played a leading role from within the establishment in attempting to further the social movement for same-sex marriage in the United States. The paper looks at the various opinions in the Court’s In re Marriage Cases decision to see how the members of the Court, divided four to three in the opinions, constructed or refrained from constructing marriage as a right that might be available to sexual minorities.
You can access the paper here.