Eskridge William N. Equality Practice: Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights

Routledge, 2001. — 298 p.William Eskridge, a Yale law professor chronicles the Vermont law which legalised civil unions - distinct from marriage - for same sex couples. Eskridge's Equality Practice is a truly excellent book--informative, well written, and broad in scope and inquiry while maintaining a clear argument. It nicely integrates global, historical, and contemporary legal and political perspectives. It is hard to imagine the person who would not learn anything from reading it.