Contested equality : international and comparative legal perspectives /
"Comparative in scope, this book explores current debates surrounding the legal notion of equality. It expertly analyses equality law from a range of different legal perspectives, divided into three categories: dimensions of inequality; framing and proceduralising inequality; and new frontiers...
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts :
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Contested equality / Elif Askin and Hanna Stoll
- Questions of contested equality : an overview / Matthias Mahlmann
- Part I: Dimensions of inequality
- A fractured approach : poverty and racial discrimination before the CERD [Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination] committee / Vandita Khanna
- Is it discrimination, segregation or both? : an interdisciplinary perspective on societal ('de facto') / Merel Vrancken
- Advancing access to social security : maternity protection and social justice for women in the informal economy / Janine Hicks
- An uncharted territory awaiting to be uncovered : discrimination on the grounds of socio-economic status in the Polish legal order / Adam Ploszka
- Part II: Framing and proceduralising inequality
- New agents for ethno-racial equality : identity politics, vulnerabilities, and beyond / András László Pap
- Conflicting interests? : European national equality bodies acting as (informal) mediators for discrimination complaints / Cathérine Van de Graaf
- Understanding and accounting for socio-economic inequalities in the current economic order : a business and human rights perspective / Marta Piazza
- Part III: New frontiers of inequality
- Procedural justice and the boundaries of environmental law : a critical inquiry into Latin America / Thalia Viveros-Uehara
- Interrelationship of legal gender identity and the right to health of transgender persons in India / Amit Upadhyay and Arvind Tayenjam
- Inequalities in digital trade and digital trade regulation / Mira Burri
- The unequal battlefield : a critical reflection on the use of fully autonomous weapons in situations of war / Sai Sathyanarayanan Venkatesh
- Conclusion: Reconsidering equality / Elif Askin and Hanna Stoll.