Product Description: This book examines the harm that everyday discrimination can cause and proposes ways in which it can be redressed. Extreme forms of harmful expression, such as incitement to hatred, have been significantly addressed in law. Everyday generalised prejudice, negative stereotypes and gross under-representation of disadvantaged groups in mainstream media are, however, widely perceived as ‘normal’, and their criticism is regularly trivialised...read more

Product Description: Now available in paperback, this book explores some of the conceptual questions which underpin the legal disputes that arise in relation to equality and discrimination. Among these are questions about: the meaning of 'equality' as a legal concept and its relationship to the principle of non-discrimination * symmetrical and asymmetrical approaches to equality/non-discrimination * the role of comparators in discrimination/equality analysis * the selection of protected characteristics and the proper sphere of statutory and constitutional protections * the scope for and regulation of potential conflicts between protected grounds...read more

Product Description: In this second volume we turn our attention to the Americas: North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. During the past decade many American countries amended their constitutions and enacted laws protecting the rights of indigenous people.

Fredman provides a thought-provoking introduction to discrimination law. Drawing on a wide variety of philosophical and legal sources, the concepts of equality and anti-discrimination law are introduced and discussed in their social and historical contexts.

Product Description: Even today, class discrimination remains an important global legal issue. This book allows readers a better understanding of the issue of class discrimination and inequality, including the role of education in bridging the class systems...read more

Product Description: Set against previous stages of minority protection under international law, this book discusses the role of courts and court-like bodies - particularly in the Americas, Africa and Europe - in articulating and accommodating the interests and needs of ethno-cultural minority groups as part of the human rights discourse...read more

Product Description: In the post-September 11th era, liberal democracies face the question of whether, and if so to what extent, they should change the relationship between liberty and security. This book explores how three major liberal democratic states - the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany - have approached this challenge by analysing the human rights impacts of their anti-terrorism laws and practices...read more

Provides a comprehensive exposition of domestic, European and international anti-discrimination law. Drawing on historical, anthropological, economic and political science scholarship, this book places the law in a broad theoretical context, and highlights traditional assumptions.

Product Description: This unique volume offers a survey of legal and legislative means to combat racism, xenophobia, anti-semitism and other forms of related intolerance. Its aim is threefold: 1) to provide a legal model for fighting racism, xenophobia, anti-semitism and discrimination through domestic legislation; 2) to compare existing national legislation with international legal instruments designed to combat racial and other forms of discrimination, in order to bring domestic laws into line with international legal norms; 3) to provide a tool for researchers, legislators, human rights activists and all those who work to protect the rights of minorities and victims of incitement and discrimination, as well as for domestic and international institutions, which monitor compliance with these laws...read more

Product Description: In this study, an assessment model is developed to guide courts in deciding equal treatment cases. Such a model appears to be indispensable, since relevant equality provisions often do not offer much guidance as to the assessment of unequal treatment...read more

From the struggles of Native Americans at the country's birth and the vote for women to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and the African-American civil rights movement of the 1960s, the authors show how the Supreme Court has paved the way for both justice and discrimination throughout American history.

Product Description: Group hatred, disregard for the collective aspirations of religious, ethnic or cultural minorities, genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and anti-Semitism have been at the roots of the greatest tragedies of our time and are a source of internal and international conflict...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection covers both the general aspects of equality and non-discrimination law, as well as the specific grounds for discrimination, adverse impact or indirect discrimination, and affirmative action. It also discusses diverse aspects of the enforcement of non-discrimination law, and contains conclusions and an agenda for change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text comprises a collection of essays on enforcement agencies in the area of discrimination law. It highlights commonality and difference of law and practice of enforcement in a selection of countries, exploring what works effectively and why. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Using an historical and analytical approach, this book addresses the growing concern with non-discrimination as a question of human rights. The author discusses such issues as what is meant by "equality" and "discrimination" and the questions concerning "positive discrimination", examining anti-discrimination treaties and the machinery established to affect them, from the protection of minorities after World War I to the actions of the United Nations...read more