Comparative Discrimination Law: Historical and Theoretical Frameworks

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34544-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 236 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in International Law / Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination Law

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carlson, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Comparative Discrimination Law: Historical and Theoretical Frameworks
Laura Carlson
Introduction: Comparative Discrimination Law
Part 1: Modern International Historical Developments as to Discrimination Issues
Part 2: The Europeanisation of Discrimination Protections
Part 3: Regional Human Rights Instruments and Discrimination Protections
Part 4: National Discrimination Legal Frameworks—The United States
Part 5: National Discrimination Legal Frameworks—The United Kingdom
Part 6: National Discrimination Legal Frameworks—Sweden
Part 7: Institutional and Theoretical Frameworks
Appendix 1
Reading List

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Carlson is the Editor-in-Chief for this Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination Law series. Laura is an associate professor at the School of Law, Stockholm University, and head of the labour law department. Her area of expertise is discrimination law. She has a BA in History, Carleton College, J.D., University of Minnesota, Ll.M (jur.kand.), Uppsala University, Doctor of Laws, Stockholm University, and has been a research fellow at the University of Oxford and Christ Church.