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A Right to Discriminate?: How the Case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association
Author: Tobias Barrington Wolff
Year: July 7, 2009
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 512 KB
Language: English
Year: July 7, 2009
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 512 KB
Language: English
Should the Boy Scouts of America and other noncommercial associations have a right to discriminate when selecting their members?Does the state have a legitimate interest in regulating the membership practices of private associations? These questions - raised by Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Scouts had a right to expel gay members - are at the core of this provocative book, an in-depth exploration of the tension between freedom of association and antidiscrimination law. The book demonstrates that the "right" to discriminate has a long and unpleasant history. Andrew Koppelman and Tobias Wolff bring together legal history, constitutional theory, and political philosophy to analyze how the law ought to deal with discriminatory private organizations.