appearances constitutionalism

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European Anti-Discrimination and the Politics of Citizenship: Britain and France (Migration, Minorities and ...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

This book addresses key transformations in citizenship politics in the EU ,ember states. The contributors argue that the anti-discrimination agenda set out in the Treaty of Amsterdam has had an impact on traditional patterns of national integration of ethnic minorities and migrants in Europe. Comparing transformations in French and British politics of citizenship, the book focuses in particular upon the religious dimension of discrimination and ...

Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law
Robert C. Post, K. Anthony Appiah, ...

Duke University Press, 2001

In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories like race or gender. Arguing that the prevailing logic of American antidiscrimination law is misleading, Post lobbies for deploying sociological ...

Disabled People in Britain and Discrimination: A Case for Anti-Discrimination Legislation
Colin Barnes

Hurst & Co., 1991

Affirmative Action in Antidiscrimination Law and Policy: An Overview and Synthesis (Suny Series in American ...

1 review
Samuel Leiter, William M. Leiter

State University of New York Press, 2002

Student of Dr. Leiter
I am a student of Dr. William Leiter and he does some amazing work. He is truly a great political mind of our time. If you have any interest in affirmative action, this is the tool you need to study it!

You Can't Say That!: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws

11 reviews
David Bernstein

Cato Institute, 2004

Beware the Ever Increasing Power of the Speech Police!!
Early in life my parents taught me the childhood ditty "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me" in order to inculcate into me the realization that my belief in myself was more important than what anyone else thought about me. After all, America was a "free country", and an essential element of that freedom was encompassed by the freedom of speech protected by the ...

Antidiscrimination Law and Social Equality

2 reviews
Andrew Koppelman

Yale University Press, 1998

Antidiscrimination Law by Koppelman
Koppelman provides a useful discussion of the law of antidiscrimination, but he provides something more to both the lawyer and nonlawyer reader. His analyses of various social justice theories and the philosophies and concepts surrounding the politics and law of antidiscrimination law challenge the reader to re-examine the limits and potential of antidiscrimination law. He also explores in ...