“Supreme Court Deference to Agencies, 1981-2006: An Empirical and Normative Examination”
William N. Eskridge, Jr.
John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School
Eskridge’s primary
legal academic interest is statutory interpretation. From 1990-95, he
represented a gay couple suing for recognition of their same-sex
marriage. Since then, he has published a casebook, three monographs,
and dozens of law review articles articulating a legal and political
framework for state treatment of sexual and gender minorities.
The
historical materials in his book, “Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of
the Closet” (Harvard, 1999) formed the basis for an amicus brief that
he drafted for the Cato Institute and for much of the dissenting
opinion in the 2003 Supreme Court case of Lawrence v. Texas,
which invalidated consensual sodomy laws. His most recent book is “Gay
Marriage: For Better or For Worse?” (Oxford, 2006) with Darren Spedale.
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