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EU Anti-Discrimination Law Beyond Gender

EU Anti-Discrimination Law Beyond Gender

Author: Uladzislau Belavusau; Kristin Henrard
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509915019

Published In: November 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781509938681

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The EU has slowly but surely developed a solid body of equality law that prohibits different facets of discrimination. While the Union had initially developed non-discrimination norms that served only the commercial rationale of the common market, focusing on nationality (of a Member State) and gender as protected grounds, the Treaty of Amsterdam (1997) supplied five additional prohibited grounds of discrimination to the EU legislative palette, in line with a much broader egalitarian rationale. In 2000, two EU Equality Directives followed, one focusing on race and ethnic origin, the other covering the remaining four grounds introduced by the Treaty of Amsterdam, namely religion, sexual orientation, disabilities and age. More than fifteen years after the adoption of the watershed Equality Directives, it seems timely to dedicate a book to their limits and prospects, the progress made and to revisit the rise of EU anti-discrimination law beyond gender.

This volume sets out to capture the striking developments and shortcomings that have taken place in the interpretation of relevant EU secondary law. Firstly, the book unfolds an up-to-date systemic reappraisal of the five `newer' grounds of discrimination, which have so far received mostly fragmented coverage. Secondly, and more generally, the volume captures the ways in which and the extent to which the Equality Directives have enabled or, at times, prevented the Court of Justice of the European Union from developing even broader and more refined anti-discrimination jurisprudence. Thus, the book offers a glimpse into the past, present and - hopefully - future of EU anti-discrimination law, as despite all the flaws in the Union's Garden of Earthly Delights, it offers one of the highest standards of protection in comparative anti-discrimination law.

Preface

Koen Lenaerts, the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union

1. The Impact of the 2000 Equality Directives on EU Anti-Discrimination Law: Achievements and Pitfalls

Uladzislau Belavusau & Kristin Henrard

Part I Theoretical and Procedural Aspects

2. Multiple Discrimination in EU Anti-Discrimination Law: Towards Redressing Complex Inequality?

Raphaële Xenidis

3. EU Equality Law and Precarious Work

Mark Bell

4. The Effective Protection against Racial Discrimination and the Burden of Proof: Making up the Balance of the Court of Justice’s Guidance

Kristin Henrard

5. When Equality Directives are not Enough: Taking an Issue with the Missing Minority Rights Policy in the EU?