Australian Anti-Discrimination Law

2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-86287-910-2
Verlag: Federation Press

Buch, Englisch, 992 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1260 g

This book, which is the first major text in the field directed to both legal practitioners and law students, contains a detailed analysis of Australian anti-discrimination law as well as extracts from all of the major cases and the writings of leading commentators. It incorporates the many changes to the law since the first edition was published in 2008 and includes new chapters dealing with positive duties, victimisation and protections against discrimination in industrial relations laws.
The book includes a comprehensive examination of the difficult concepts of direct and indirect discrimination as well as coverage of the major grounds of unlawful discrimination, such as race, sex and disability.
The book records the history of the major pieces of anti-discrimination legislation, examines important international developments and includes numerous suggestions for reform. The book will be of interest to legal and human rights practitioners as well as students. The chapters in the areas of procedure and remedies will be particularly important to those people practicing in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rees, Neil

Rice, Simon

Allen, Dominique

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An Overview of Australian Anti-Discrimination Law 2. The Policy Goals of Australian Anti-Discrimination Law 3. The Impact of the Australian Constitution on Anti-Discrimination Law 4. The Concept of Unlawful Discrimination 5. Positive Duties 6. Protected Attributes 7. Areas of Unlawful Discrimination 8. Defences, Exceptions and Exemptions 9. Harassment 10. Vilification 11. Victimisation 12. Procedure 13. Remedies 14. Employment legislation.

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Neil Rees is the Chairperson of the Victorian Law Reform Commission. He was previously Professor of Law and Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Newcastle.
He has been a member of a number of statutory tribunals including the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal, the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal and the Victorian Mental Health Review Board.
Simon Riceis a Professor of Law at the Australian National University, where he is Director of Law Reform and Social Justice. He researches and writes in discrimination, human rights, access to justice and public interest lawyering.
From 1996-2011 he was a part-time judicial member of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal in the Equal Opportunity Division. He is a past President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, and a former Director of the NSW Law Foundation.
In 2002 he was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia for legal services to the socially and economically disadvantaged.
Dr Dominique Allen is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Deakin University where she teaches Workplace Law and Contract. She completed her doctoral thesis on Australia's anti-discrimination laws at Melbourne Law School and has published widely in this area of law. Her research interests are in anti-discrimination law, equality and human rights.