Race Discrimination: Developing and Using a New Legal Framework

by Gay Moon (Editor)

Overview

Recent developments in the European Union have called for greater protection from discrimination. This report explores the new anti-discrimination laws, and draws on the experience in selected countries, with recommendations for future practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841131672
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/01/2000
Series:	The Justice Series - Putting Rights into Practice , #2
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Gay Moon is a solicitor working in the field of discrimination and employment law.

Editorial Reviews

"This report maps out the territory covered by the new anti-discrimination provisions at a European Union level." --Scolag Legal Journal

"Race Discrimination provides a valuable overview of the recent development of discrimination law at European law." --Interights Bulletin

From the Publisher

Maps out the territory covered by new anti-discrimination provisions at European Union level and draws on the experience of anti- discrimination laws in selected countries. Examines the effect of incorporation of the Human Rights Act in UK domestic law, and looks at proposals in the Council of Europe for strengthening the European Convention on Human Rights' anti-discrimination provision. Contains papers from seminars held by JUSTICE and the 1990 Trust, Liberty and the Society for Black Lawyers in September 1998, and by JUSTICE in October 1998. Lacks a subject index. Distributed by ISBS. Moon is a legal officer at JUSTICE, a human rights organization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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