Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the Constitution itself says. For more content from ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said the fundamental right to equality guarantees "factual and not formal equality", and if different persons are not similarly situated, a classification is permissible.

In the past few days, the Supreme Court has both affirmed and threatened equality in the US. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Leonore Carpenter of Temple University Beasley School of Law discusses the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit’s opinion in two same-sex marriage cases and where the ...

Currently, our family law is supposedly based on the principle of gender equality. However, despite this foundation, both formal and substantive discrimination persist. It is imperative to apply a ...

"I am making the argument that those issues (of inequality and disparity) need to rise to prominence and that we can't just think that passing a non-discrimination law and winning marriage is the end ...

It could be argued that the conceptualisation of gender equality is subjective and perhaps even relative because of the varied perspectives from which it is understood. For this reason, the debate ...

Despite having won formal equality, the lack of an organised women's movement means that the Howard government has been able to take back a lot of the reforms won as a result of the struggles of the ...

Many groups of people have suffered invidious discrimination in America, and some still do. In addition to people of African descent, women, gays, Latinos, Jews, Muslims, Catholics and many other ...

Nina Simone’s 1964 song “Mississippi Goddam” ends on a bracing note of bone-weariness. Too many false and broken promises, too many times Black Americans have been told to “go slow” in the battle for ...