| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 3, 2018). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Comparative Discrimination Law: Historical and Theoretical Frameworks -- Introduction: Comparative Discrimination Law -- Part 1: Modern International Historical Developments as to Discrimination Issues -- World War I and the ILO: A Wild Dream -- World War II and the UN -- Part 2: The Europeanisation of Discrimination Protections -- The Council of Europe -- The EU and Discrimination Protections -- Part 3: Regional Human Rights Instruments and Discrimination Protections -- The Organization of American States -- The African Union -- Organisation of Islamic Cooperation -- The League of Arab States -- The Commonwealth of Independent States -- Part 4: National Discrimination Legal Frameworks-The United States -- The Federal Equal Pay Act of 1963 -- State Equal Pay Legislation -- The Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Disparate Treatment versus Disparate Impact -- Shifting the Burden of Proof -- Title VII Remedies -- Title VII's Retaliation Provision -- Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act -- The Federal EEOC -- The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 -- State Discrimination Legislation -- Access to Justice Issues in the US -- Part 5: National Discrimination Legal Frameworks-The United Kingdom -- The Race Relations Acts 1965 and 1976 -- The Equal Pay Act 1970 -- The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 -- Disability Discrimination Act 1995 -- Human Rights Act 1998 -- The Equality Acts 2006 and 2010 -- Parental Leave Discrimination Protections -- The Equality and Human Rights Commission -- Access to Justice Issues in the UK -- Part 6: National Discrimination Legal Frameworks-Sweden -- The Swedish Folkhemmet and Labour Law Model -- The 1970's: The Decade of Equality between Women and Men (Jämställdhet) -- The 1979 Equality between Women and Men Act -- 1995 EU Membership and Swedish Discrimination Legislation. |
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The 2008 Discrimination Act -- The Discrimination Ombudsman -- Access to Justice Issues in Sweden -- Part 7: Institutional and Theoretical Frameworks -- Comparative Law Theories -- Legal Families, Styles and Traditions -- Comparative Labor and Discrimination Law -- Role of Law -- Access to Justice -- Legal Theories Addressing Different Protected Grounds -- Critical Race Theory -- Postcolonial Legal Theory -- Feminist Legal Theories -- Queer Legal Theory -- Intersectionality and the Law -- Final Remarks -- Appendix 1: Chronology of the Different Protected Grounds -- Reading List. |
| Summary |
Human history is marked by group and individual struggles for emancipation, equality and self-expression. This first volume in the Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination Law briefly explores some of the history underlying these efforts in the field of discrimination law. A broad discussion of the historical development of issues of discrimination is first set out, looking at certain international, regional and national bases for modern discrimination legal structures. Several of the theoretical frameworks invoked in a comparative discrimination law analysis are then addressed, either as institutional frameworks or theories addressing specific protection grounds. This first volume is dedicated to setting out an introduction to the field of comparative discrimination law to give the reader a platform from which to undertake further reading and research in the compelling topic of comparative discrimination law. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Discrimination -- Law and legislation.
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Discrimination -- Law and legislation. |
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LAW -- Constitutional. |
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LAW -- Public. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Anti-discrimination law. |
| ISBN |
9789004345454 (electronic book) |
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9004345450 (electronic book) |
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9789004345447 |
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