Six international legal norms on the protection of same-sex partnership have emerged

Abstract

In this blog the author presents the main conclusions from his fully revised and updated article ‘Same-Sex Partnership, International Protection’ in the online Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Earlier versions of that article were published in 2009, 2012 and 2014. This July 2021 update of his article discusses all 50 rulings on the topic given by international judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, plus various decisions of other bodies of UN, EU and other international organizations. The article covers human rights law and international staff law, and touches on rules of free movement and private international law). His analysis of this growing body of international law, led the author to conclude that by 2021 six international legal norms that have emerged on the protection and recognition of same-sex partners.

The article 'Same-Sex Partnership, International Protection' is available online (to subscribers only, but sometimes also to others) at: https://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law:epil/9780199231690/law-9780199231690-e1739.

In January 2022, this blog also appeared as Leiden Law Blog, at https://www.leidenlawblog.nl/articles/six-international-legal-norms-on-the-protection-of-same-sex-partnership-have-emerged.