Introduction

Christopher McCrudden, ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW, Ashgate, 2004

Posted: 26 Jul 2004

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Christopher McCrudden

Queen's University Belfast - School of Law; University of Michigan Law School; University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law

Abstract

This introduction to a collection of articles on anti-discrimination law published between 1990 and 2002 considers the changing legal context in which the intellectual debate about anti-discrimination took place during this period, as well as some of the effects of these changes on the scholarly literature. It explains the scheme of classification used for situating the essays included in the selection. In brief, the essays are divided - somewhat arbitrarily as they often touch on several themes - between four themes: libertarian critics of anti-discrimination law, and responses to that criticism; theories founded on the ideal of human dignity; theories justifying anti-discrimination law on grounds of economic distributive justice; and theories based on the idea that anti-discrimination law can best be seen from the perspective of protecting and enhancing group and individual identities. At the risk of stating the obvious, this review of the literature attempts merely to select from a large pool of scholarly writings, and neither to be comprehensive in its coverage of the issues raised, nor of the relevant writings on any particular issue.

Keywords: equality, discrimination, anti-discrimination law, legal theory

JEL Classification: K19, K20, K31

Suggested Citation

McCrudden, Christopher, Introduction. Christopher McCrudden, ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW, Ashgate, 2004, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=568362

Christopher McCrudden (Contact Author)

Queen's University Belfast - School of Law ( email )

School of Law
Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland BT7 1NN
United Kingdom

University of Michigan Law School ( email )

625 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215
United States

University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law

Boalt Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
United States

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