caa a22 4500 378872389 CHVBK 20180305123412.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20030529xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1539-8323.1007 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1539-8323.1007 Ford Richard Thompson 1Stanford University Unnatural Groups: A Reacton to Owen Fiss's "Groups and the Equal Protection Clause" [Elektronische Daten] [Richard Thompson Ford] This article suggests that Owen Fiss's idea of an equal protection principle undergirded by a prohibition of actions that disadvantage certain "natural groups" contributed to a much more expansive idea of group difference in contemporary identity conscious legal scholarship. The expanded natural groups idea seeks to protect groups against disadvantageous actions by protecting cultural practices or traits thought to "belong" to the groups. This approach to civil rights (equal protection doctrine and statutory anti-discrimination law) is troubling because it requires a legally articulated account of group difference. Such an account of group difference may be factually inaccurate or incomplete, may reinforce dangerous stereotypes and at the same time may become a self fulfilling prophesy as members of the group in question come to internalize the account of group difference that receives the judicial imprimatur. We should reject this approach to civil rights in favor of an expanded conception of an anti-discrimination norm and perhaps group indifferent rights to specific practices or characteristics. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston The Origins and Fate of Antisubordination Theory nationallicence Issues in Legal Scholarship De Gruyter 2/1(2003-05-29) 2:1 2003 2 ils https://doi.org/10.2202/1539-8323.1007 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1539-8323.1007 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ford Richard Thompson 1Stanford University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Issues in Legal Scholarship De Gruyter 2/1(2003-05-29) 2:1 2003 2 ils CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter