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This book focuses on anti-discrimination law in order to identify
commonalities and best practices across nations. Almost every
nation in the world embraces the principle of equality and
non-discrimination, in theory if not in practice. As the authors'
expert contributions establish, the sources of the principle vary
considerably, from international treaties to religious law,
traditions and more. There are many approaches to methods of
enforcement and other variables, but the principle is nearly
universal. What does a comparison of the laws and approaches across
different lands reveal? Readers may explore the enforcement and
effectiveness of anti-discrimination law from 25 nations, across
six continents. Esteemed authors examine national, regional and
international systems looking for common and best practices,
identifying innovative approaches to long-standing problems. The
many ways that anti-discrimination law is enforced are brought to
light, from criminal or civil prosecution through to community
resolution processes, amongst others. Through comparing the
approaches of different lands, the authors consider which methods
of enforcement are effective. These enriching national and
international perspectives highlight the need for more creative,
concrete and coordinated means of enforcement to ensure the
effectiveness of anti-discrimination law, regardless of the legal
tradition concerned, but in light of these traditions. Readers will
find each nation remarkable, and learn something new and
interesting from each report.
This book focuses on anti-discrimination law in order to identify
commonalities and best practices across nations. Almost every
nation in the world embraces the principle of equality and
non-discrimination, in theory if not in practice. As the authors'
expert contributions establish, the sources of the principle vary
considerably, from international treaties to religious law,
traditions and more. There are many approaches to methods of
enforcement and other variables, but the principle is nearly
universal. What does a comparison of the laws and approaches across
different lands reveal? Readers may explore the enforcement and
effectiveness of anti-discrimination law from 25 nations, across
six continents. Esteemed authors examine national, regional and
international systems looking for common and best practices,
identifying innovative approaches to long-standing problems. The
many ways that anti-discrimination law is enforced are brought to
light, from criminal or civil prosecution through to community
resolution processes, amongst others. Through comparing the
approaches of different lands, the authors consider which methods
of enforcement are effective. These enriching national and
international perspectives highlight the need for more creative,
concrete and coordinated means of enforcement to ensure the
effectiveness of anti-discrimination law, regardless of the legal
tradition concerned, but in light of these traditions. Readers will
find each nation remarkable, and learn something new and
interesting from each report.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press' new open access publishing program
for monographs. Do the United States and France, both
post-industrial democracies, differ in their views and laws
concerning discrimination? Marie Mercat-Bruns, a Franco-American
scholar, examines the differences in how the two countries approach
discrimination. Bringing together prominent legal
scholars-including Robert Post, Linda Krieger, Martha Minow, Reva
Siegel, Susan Sturm, Richard Ford, and others-Mercat-Bruns
demonstrates how the two nations have adopted divergent strategies.
The United States continues, with mixed success at "colorblind"
policies, to deal with issues of diversity in university
enrollment, class action sex-discrimination lawsuits, and rampant
police violence against African American men and women. In France,
the country has banned the full-face veil while making efforts to
present itself as a secular republic. Young men and women whose
parents and grandparents came from sub-Sahara and North Africa are
stuck coping with a society that fails to take into account the
barriers to employment and education they face. Discrimination at
Work provides an incisive comparative analysis of how the nature of
discrimination in both countries has changed, now often hidden, or
steeped in deep unconscious bias. While it is rare for employers in
both countries to openly discriminate, deep systemic discrimination
exists, rooted in structural and environmental causes and the ways
each state has dealt with difference in general. Invigorating and
incisive, the book examines hot-button issues such as sexual
harassment; race, religious and gender discrimination; and equality
for LGBT individuals, thereby delivering comparisons meant to
further social equality and fundamental human rights across
borders.
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