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Jessica A. Clarke

The Yale Law Journal - Jessica A. Clarke Jessica A. Clarke Article Courts often hold that antidiscrimination law protects “immutablecharacteristics, like

Reproductive Rights

immutablecharacteristics, like sex and race. In a series of recent cases, gay rights advocates have persuaded courts to expand the concept of immutability

Forum: Evidence-Based Sentencing and the Taint of Dangerousness

immutable characteristics . . . may exacerbate unwarranted and unjust disparities that are already far too common in our criminal justice system and in

Civil-Rights Law

immutablecharacteristics, like sex and race. In a series of recent cases, gay rights advocates have persuaded courts to expand the concept of

Against Immutability

Court’s equal protection jurisprudence. Other scholarly treatments of this subject have examined immutable traits defined as those characteristics that

Article

immutablecharacteristics, like sex and race. In a series of recent cases, gay rights advocates have persuaded courts to expand the concept of

Indigenous Subjects

between ancestry and race is an important pillar of the Court’s understanding of race as a matter of individual, immutable, biological characteristics

Constitutional Law

antidiscrimination law protects “immutablecharacteristics, like sex and race. In a series of recent cases, gay rights advocates have persuaded courts to

Domestic Violence Asylum After Matter of L-R-

each “describes persecution aimed at an immutable characteristic: a characteristic that either is beyond the power of an individual to change or is

The Separation-of-Powers Counterrevolution

messy work of national governance. There is no essential or immutable separation of powers. Statutes on this account are foundational to the design