Anti-discrimination Law

Equality and Anti-Discrimination law (ADL) have become major paradigms in both legal and political debates in a wide range of jurisdictions. This course is comparative in nature and seeks to confront transnational (EU, ECHR) as well as national (European and beyond) bodies of anti-discrimination law. It describes the historical development of, the concepts (direct and indirect discrimination, intersectionality...) it is made of as well as its scope (prohibition of discrimination on the basis of race, religion, age, sex, etc. in the fields of employment, housing, education, provision of goods and services...) and the main challenges it faces. Further, depending on the instructor’s annual choices, the course either delves into conceptual and theoretical reflections on the acquired centrality of anti-discrimination law in contemporary polities or choses to proceed to an in-depth examination of one particular issue of ADL (among many possibilities: religious discrimination in Europe; race discrimination in the USA; age discrimination in EU law...)