The Yale Law Journal

Ariela R. Dubler

Article

Immoral Purposes: Marriage and the Genus of Illicit Sex

Ariela R. Dubler

115 Yale L.J. 756 (2006)

In Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court situates its opinion within the history of laws banning sodomy. Lawrence, however, is also part of another historical narrative: the history of attempts by federal lawmakers and judges to define the relationships among the genus of illi…

Article

In the Shadow of Marriage: Single Women and the Legal Construction of the Family and the State

Ariela R. Dubler

112 Yale L.J. 1641 (2003)

This Article argues that the law has constructed marriage as an institution capable of regulating the rights and responsibilities of even unmarried women. In various ways, the law has constructed the rights of certain groups of unmarried women "in the shadow of marriage": Th…