Marrying legal doctrine from five pioneering and conversant jurisdictions with contemporary political philosophy, this book provides a general theory of discrimination law. Part I gives a theoreticall
Fundamental and complex questions surround discrimination law and plague its application. When is discrimination justifiable? What is the purpose of the law, and its relationship to social equality? I
Indirect discrimination (or disparate impact) concerns the application of the same rule to everyone even though that rule significantly disadvantages one particular group in society. Ever since its re
