KDEC 9270 - Comparative Discrimination Law: Enforcement and Effectiveness in a Global World
KDEC 9270 · Spring semester 2025-2026
- Language of tuition
- English
- Course type
- Cours séminaire
- Number of hours
- 24
- Credits
- 4
Information
Description
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.
Prerequisites
None.
Assessment
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.
Readings
Main readings 5
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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/
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B Havelkova, M Moschel, Antidiscrimination law in civil jurisdictions Oxford University Press 2019
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M Mercat-Bruns, D Oppenheimer, C. Sartorius, Comparative Perspectives on the Enforcement and Effectiveness of Antidiscrimination Law Springer 2018
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M Mercat-Bruns, Discrimination at Work, UC Press 2016, https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.11/
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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
Further readings 11
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ALI updates on employment discrimination law (westlaw)
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J. Friedman, Cases and Materials on the Law of Employment Discrimination (University Casebook Series) and Supplement
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L. Adler, L. Crooms, J. Greenberg, M. Minow, D. Roberts, Mary Joe Frug’s Women and the Law, Foundation Press 2007
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M. Mercat-Bruns, Les figures du droit : les différentes figures de la discrimination au travail : quelle cohérence ? RDT 2020, p. 25
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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
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M. Mercat-Bruns, Vieillissement et droit à la lumière du droit français et du droit américain, L.G.D.J. 2001
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Mark Bell, Antidiscrimination law and the European Union 2002 Hart Publishing
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Oppenheimer, Foster and Han's Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law: Cases, Codes, Constitutions and Commentary (University Casebook Series) 2012
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R. Colker, Disability Pendulum NYU Press 2005
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R. Ford, Racial culture: A critique Princeton University Press 2005
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S. Estreicher, N Hunter, Sexuality, Gender and the Law Foundation Press 2004
Teaching units
| Unit no. | Unit type | Teaching units | Teachers | Number of hours | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52800 | Cours séminaire | Comparative Discrimination Law: Enforcement and Effectiveness in a Global World | Marie MERCAT BRUNS | 24 | 4 |
Teachers
- Marie MERCAT BRUNS
In the curricula
Contacts and resources
- Contact
- MENGUY Hélène