{"product_id":"9781107241329","title":"Beyond Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation: Legal Equality without Identity","description":"The conventional interpretation of equality under the law singles out certain groups or classes for constitutional protection: women, racial minorities, and gays and lesbians. The United States Supreme Court calls these groups 'suspect classes'. Laws that discriminate against them are generally unconstitutional. While this is a familiar account of equal protection jurisprudence, this book argues that this approach suffers from hitherto unnoticed normative and political problems. The book elucidates a competing, extant interpretation of equal protection jurisprudence that avoids these problems. The interpretation is not concerned with suspect classes but rather with the kinds of reasons that are already inadmissible as a matter of constitutional law. This alternative approach treats the equal protection clause like any other limit on governmental power, thus allowing the Court to invalidate equality-infringing laws and policies by focusing on their justification rather than the identity group they discriminate against.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117337067760,"sku":"9781107241329","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781107241329_p0.jpg?v=1763690499","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781107241329","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}