Theory of Discrimination Law

Zusatztext This book offers a rigorous analytical exercise in reason on the host of issues associated with anti-discrimination for students, lawyers and judges in generations to come. Informationen zum Autor Dr Tarun Khaitan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and the Hackney Fellow in Law at Wadham College. His teaching and research interests cover legal theory, public law, and human rights. Klappentext Adopting a novel approach to cut through several enduring controversies in discrimination law theory, this book provides a sophisticated doctrinal and philosophical treatment of the key questions of discrimination law. It argues that the real point of discrimination law is to remove abiding, pervasive, and substantial relative group disadvantage. Zusammenfassung Adopting a novel approach to cut through several enduring controversies in discrimination law theory, this book provides a sophisticated doctrinal and philosophical treatment of the key questions of discrimination law. It argues that the real point of discrimination law is to remove abiding, pervasive, and substantial relative group disadvantage.

Product details

• Authors: Tarunabh Khaitan, Tarunabh (Associate Professor and Hackney Khaitan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2016
• EAN: 9780198790754
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879075-4
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Labor & Employment, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LAW / Discrimination, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Discrimination in employment and harassment law, Discrimination in employment law