The role of Constitutional courts in promoting marriage equality and their relationship with movements and legislators

The chapters aims at analyzing the contribution that constitutional courts gave to the advancement of LGBT rights and in particular their relatioship with national legislators and social movements. It argues that the outcome of constitutional litigation depends on the peculiar procedural and institutional arrangements governing the judicial review of legislation in each jurisdiction and that constitutional courts should not be assimilated to ordinary lower courts which are less concerned to protect their own legitimacy in the constitutional system.