KDEC 9270 - Comparative Discrimination Law: Enforcement and Effectiveness in a Global World

From a comparative and transnational perspective, this course will cover current issues in discrimination law, including employment, as they unfold in civil and common law jurisdictions. After a close look at how equality law has developed at the international and European level, the course will focus more deeply on a series of issues including: the meaning of systemic racial discrimination and strategic litigation; proof of discrimination and the use of algorithms; sex, transgender discrimination and parental rights; the gender wage gap and the rise of organizational innocence; sexual harassment after the global #metoo movement; religious accommodation and neutrality rules; age discrimination and its proxies in welfare states; the future of genetic discrimination; the concept of disability, the recognition of inclusion, fear of “separatism” and of intersectionality around the world.
Marie MERCAT BRUNS
Séminaire
English
None.
Spring 2024-2025
A 15 minute presentation of opposing arguments presented in class by two students on of the class topics and a 10 page research paper developing one of the issues presented. Oral participation is graded. Follow-up questions on course pack are answered for each class.
M Mercat-Bruns, D Oppenheimer, C. Sartorius, Comparative Perspectives on the Enforcement and Effectiveness of Antidiscrimination Law Springer 2018
B Havelkova, M Moschel, Antidiscrimination law in civil jurisdictions Oxford University Press 2019
A Noel D. Oppenheimer (Ed) The global #metoo movement: how social media propelled a historic movement and the law responded, Full court Press 2020, https://www.globalmetoobook.com/
M Mercat-Bruns, Discrimination at Work, UC Press 2016, https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.11/
M. Mercat-Bruns (Dir.) Nouveaux modes de détection et de prévention des discriminations et accès au droit : Action de groupe et discrimination systémique ; algorithmes et préjugés ; réseaux sociaux et harcèlement, Société de législation comparée 2020
Oppenheimer, Foster and Han's Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law: Cases, Codes, Constitutions and Commentary (University Casebook Series) 2012
J. Friedman, Cases and Materials on the Law of Employment Discrimination (University Casebook Series) and Supplement
ALI updates on employment discrimination law (westlaw)
Mark Bell, Antidiscrimination law and the European Union 2002 Hart Publishing
L. Adler, L. Crooms, J. Greenberg, M. Minow, D. Roberts, Mary Joe Frug's Women and the Law, Foundation Press 2007
S. Estreicher, N Hunter, Sexuality, Gender and the Law Foundation Press 2004
M. Mercat-Bruns, Vieillissement et droit à la lumière du droit français et du droit américain, L.G.D.J. 2001
R. Colker, Disability Pendulum NYU Press 2005
R. Ford, Racial culture: A critique Princeton University Press 2005
M. Mercat-Bruns, Les figures du droit : les différentes figures de la discrimination au travail : quelle cohérence ? RDT 2020, p. 25
M. Mercat-Bruns, Systemic discrimination: rethinking the tools of gender equality, European Equality Law Review 2018, p. 25 https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/law_review_2018_2.pdf