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

KDEC 9270 · Semestre de printemps 2025-2026

Langue d'enseignement
English
Type d'enseignement
Cours séminaire
Nombre d'heures
24
Crédits
4

Informations

Descriptif

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.

Pré-requis

None.

Mode de validation

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.

Lectures

Lectures principales 5

  1. 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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  2. B Havelkova, M Moschel, Antidiscrimination law in civil jurisdictions Oxford University Press 2019

  3. M Mercat-Bruns, D Oppenheimer, C. Sartorius, Comparative Perspectives on the Enforcement and Effectiveness of Antidiscrimination Law Springer 2018

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  4. M Mercat-Bruns, Discrimination at Work, UC Press 2016, https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.11/

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  5. 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

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Lectures secondaires 11

  1. ALI updates on employment discrimination law (westlaw)

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  2. J. Friedman, Cases and Materials on the Law of Employment Discrimination (University Casebook Series) and Supplement

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  3. L. Adler, L. Crooms, J. Greenberg, M. Minow, D. Roberts, Mary Joe Frug’s Women and the Law, Foundation Press 2007

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Mark Bell, Antidiscrimination law and the European Union 2002 Hart Publishing

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  8. Oppenheimer, Foster and Han's Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law: Cases, Codes, Constitutions and Commentary (University Casebook Series) 2012

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  9. R. Colker, Disability Pendulum NYU Press 2005

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  10. R. Ford, Racial culture: A critique Princeton University Press 2005

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  11. S. Estreicher, N Hunter, Sexuality, Gender and the Law Foundation Press 2004

Unités pédagogiques

N° d'UPType d'UP Unités pédagogiquesEnseignants Nombre d'heuresCrédits
52800Cours séminaire Comparative Discrimination Law: Enforcement and Effectiveness in a Global World Marie MERCAT BRUNS244

Enseignants

  • Marie MERCAT BRUNS