Equality''s Guardians - How Courts Conceptualize Equal Protection Non Discrimination

Equality is a contested concept, giving courts significant power to shape equality guarantees. Equality's Guardians explores how different jurisdictions emphasize various dimensions of equality, despite similar normative texts. It also examines the institutional and cultural reasons behind the diverse conceptions of equality adopted by courts.

List of contents

• 1: Niels Petersen: Mapping Equality Case Law Around the World-Conceptual Preliminaries


• 2: Niels Petersen: United States


• 3: Niels Petersen: Canada


• 4: Jasmin Beck: European Court of Human Rights


• 5: Niels Petersen: European Union


• 6: Niels Petersen: United Kingdom


• 7: Niels Petersen: Germany


• 8: Joanna Mrozi¿ska: France


• 9: Joanna Mrozi¿ska: Poland


• 10: Tainá Garcia Maia: Inter-American Court of Human Rights


• 11: Tainá Garcia Maia: Colombia


• 12: Tainá Garcia Maia: Brazil


• 13: Shubhangi Roy: India


• 14: Niels Petersen: Singapore


• 15: Wei-Ju Huang: Taiwan


• 16: Niels Petersen: New Zealand


• 17: Helina Stiphanos Teka: African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights


• 18: Helina Stiphanos Teka: South Africa


• 19: Niels Petersen: UN Human Rights Committee


• 20: Niels Petersen: The Diversity of Judicial Conceptions of Equality

About the author

Niels Petersen is Professor of Public Law, International Law, and EU Law at the University of Münster. He holds an MA in Quantitative Methods from Columbia University and a PhD in Law from Goethe University in Frankfurt. His research focuses on comparative constitutional law, constitutional rights and international human rights, constitutional theory, and the use of social science methods in legal research. He is the author of the book Proportionality and Judicial Activism (2017) and was the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant project "Correcting Inequality through Law" from 2019 to 2025.

Product details

• Authors: Niels (Professor of Public Law Petersen
• Assisted by: Petersen Niels (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2025
• EAN: 9780198961093
• ISBN: 978-0-19-896109-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Courts, LAW / International, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Public, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Trial Practice, comparative law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general