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Joseph F. Morrissey et al., Bankruptcy Law in Context (Wolters Kluwer, 2020)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Joseph F. Morrissey et al., Bankruptcy Law in Context (Wolters Kluwer, 2020)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Joseph F. Morrissey, Business Entities, in Overview of U.S. Law (Ellen S. Podgor and J. R. Swanegan eds., 2nd ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2019)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Rebecca C. Morgan et al., Elder Law In Context (Wolters Kluwer, 2017)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Joseph F. Morrissey, Surrogacy: The Process, the Law, and the Contracts, 51 Willamette L. Rev. 459 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Joseph F. Morrissey, A Contractarian Critique of Citizens United, 15 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 765 (2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Joseph F. Morrissey, Lochner, Lawrence, and Liberty, 27 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 609 (2011)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This article, “Taking Lochner Out of the Closet,” is at the intersection of contract law, constitutional law, and sexual orientation law. The article offers a fresh and neutral analytical framework based on liberty of contract to advance gay rights. The framework might also be applied to other areas of concern where government regulation must be justified.
With respect to gay rights specifically, many of the states of the United States have statutes, constitutional provisions, and court decisions that deny individuals the right to have a family, specifically a spouse and children, based on sexual orientation. Advocates frequently argue that such acts violate constitutional guarantees of equal protection or invade a constitutional right to privacy. However such arguments are often defeated by counter arguments presented with religious, moral and even emotional fervor.
This article discusses and develops an alternative analytical framework that is perhaps more neutral and less emotional than pleas for equal protection or privacy, and that might be used to critically assess such restrictions. The argument is one based on the historic principles of liberty of contract. Those principles were prevalent during what has become known as the Lochner era, an era named for the infamous case of Lochner v. New York, which was decided in 1905. (Lochner held that a statute regulating working hours of bakers was unconstitutional). The Lochner case and the era named for it was dominated by a simple presumption that people should be allowed the liberty to order their own affairs through contract and that regulatory encroachments on that liberty interest would be evaluated critically. This article argues that it is with just such a presumption that restrictions denying individuals the liberty to pursue and have a family should be evaluated and, most likely, found to be unconstitutional.
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Joseph F. Morrissey, The CISG: A Lex Amicorum, in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law: Synergy, Convergence and Evolution--Liber Amicorum Eric Bergsten (S. Kroll et al. eds., Wolters Kluwer, 2011)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Joseph F. Morrissey, Introduction, The Transformative Power of Law, 39 Stetson L. Rev. 625 (2010)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Joseph F. Morrissey, A Contractarian Defense of Corporate Regulation, 11 Transactions 135 (2009)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.