<p>Columbia Law School </p><p><a href="/goto?url=https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/" target="_blank">Scholarship Archive </a></p><p><a href="/goto?url=https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship" target="_blank">Faculty Scholarship </a></p><p>2004 </p><p><a href="/goto?url=https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_publications" target="_blank">Faculty Publications </a></p><p>Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence </p><p>Elizabeth F. Emens </p><p>Columbia Law School, [email protected] </p><p>Follow this and additional works at: <a href="/goto?url=https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">https:</a><a href="/goto?url=https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">/</a><a href="/goto?url=https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">/</a><a href="/goto?url=https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship </a><br>Part of the <a href="/goto?url=http://network.bepress.com/hgg/discipline/602?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">Family Law Commons</a>, <a href="/goto?url=http://network.bepress.com/hgg/discipline/1298?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">Law and Gender Commons</a>, <a href="/goto?url=http://network.bepress.com/hgg/discipline/853?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">Law and Society Commons</a>, <a href="/goto?url=http://network.bepress.com/hgg/discipline/904?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">Legal </a><br><a href="/goto?url=http://network.bepress.com/hgg/discipline/904?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">History Commons</a>, <a href="/goto?url=http://network.bepress.com/hgg/discipline/877?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">Sexuality and the Law Commons</a>, and the <a href="/goto?url=http://network.bepress.com/hgg/discipline/1350?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">Supreme Court of the United States </a><a href="/goto?url=http://network.bepress.com/hgg/discipline/1350?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">Commons </a></p><p>Recommended Citation </p><p>Elizabeth F. Emens, Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence, 29 N.Y.U. REV. L. &amp; SOC. CHANGE 277 (2004). </p><p>Available at: <a href="/goto?url=https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/410?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">https:</a><a href="/goto?url=https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/410?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">/</a><a href="/goto?url=https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/410?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">/</a><a href="/goto?url=https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/410?utm_source=scholarship.law.columbia.edu%2Ffaculty_scholarship%2F410&amp;utm_medium=PDF&amp;utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages" target="_blank">scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/410 </a></p><p>This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Publications at Scholarship Archive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of Scholarship Archive. For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>. </p>