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ARTIGOS • Novos estud. CEBRAP 38 (3) • Sep-Dec 2019 • https://doi.org/10.25091/S01013300201900030008   copy

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN THE BRAZILIAN SUPREME COURT: Legal Reasoning and the Risk of a Regressive Turn1 1 The author wishes to thank the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Fapesp) for funding the presentation of the first version of this paper at the Law and Society Association 2019 Annual Meeting, the anonymous reviewers of Novos Estudos for their careful reading and criticism that resulted in the improvement of the work, and Ricardo Savignani Álvares Leite for his research assistance.

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ABSTRACT

This paper investigates how far the Brazilian Supreme Court has argumentatively committed itself to upholding same-sex marriage in the face of prospective restrictive legislation based on the reasoning the court used in its 2011 ruling about same-sex domestic partnerships. The paper concludes that the separation of litigation over domestic partnerships and marriage may have led to the risk of a regressive turn concerning gay rights on this matter.

KEYWORDS:
same-sex marriage; same-sex domestic partnership; Brazilian Supreme Court; legal reasoning; separation of powers

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