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女性大法官有耳無嘴？

美國聯邦最高法院言詞辯論中的性別權力關係

張宏誠

美國聯邦最高法院甚麽時候才能真正達到生理性別平等？

歐洲人權法院就性別登記變更要件之判決評析

張宏誠

2017.04.07

分手前，不要告訴我你的名字
或許下一次見面
我們還能像第一次認識般
問著對方的名字
說很高興認識你
還可以一見鍾情
等待下一次相愛
像花謝了還會再開

Searching For A Simple Word: Taiwan’s Constitutional Court Hears the Case of Marriage Equality for Same-Sex Couples in March

Hong-Cheng Chang（張宏誠）

For the very first time in Asia, Taiwan’s Constitutional Court (“the Grand Justices of the Judicial Yuan”) announced yesterday that it is going to hear the oral arguments in the two joined cases on marriage equality for same-sex couples, scheduled in the end of March. There are four questions before the bench: 1) Are same-sex couples allowed to get married under the current law?; 2) If not, is the current law unconstitutional on ground of infringing the Right to Marry under Article 22 of the Constitution?; 3) Alternatively, is the current law contrary to Equal Protection under Article 7 of the Constitution?; and 4) Are institutions other than marriage, for example same-sex partnership, adequate to protect rights of same-sex couples, in a manner consistent with the constitutional provisions on equal protection and the right to marry? The Court is obligated to deliver its ruling (“the Constitutional Interpretation”) within two months after the conclusion of oral pleadings. In that case that the current law is found unconstitutional by the Court, by May 2017, Taiwan will probably become the first country in Asia that provides a legal means in protecting the equal right to marry of same-sex couples.

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你的軍靴