LAW 7010: Constitutional Law: The 14th Amendment

How did gay and lesbian relationships go so quickly from being subject to criminal prohibition to being eligible for marriage? What justifies the Supreme Court's striking down a law mandating segregated schools, when it had upheld an analogous law half a century earlier? Must the law treat all individuals identically, or may and should it grant special protections to members of historically disadvantaged groups? Ralph Richard Banks, ’87, MA ’87, considers questions of equal protection and substantive due process in “Constitutional Law: The Fourteenth Amendment.” This was his first lecture in Fall 2018.