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Exponential Inequalities

Equality Law in Times of Crisis

Shreya Atrey, Sandra Fredman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-287299-9 (ISBN)
155,85 inkl. MwSt
This edited volume addresses the operation of equality and discrimination law in times of crisis. It seeks to understand how existing inequalities are exacerbated in crises and whether equality law has the tools to understand and address this. Drawing together international experts, the book takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.
This thoughtfully edited volume explores the operation of equality and discrimination law in times of crisis. It aims to understand how existing inequalities are exacerbated in crises and whether equality law has the tools to understand and address this contingency.

Experience during the COVID-19 crisis shows that the pandemic has acted as a catalyst for 'exponential inequalities' related to racism, xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ageism, and ableism. Yet, the field of equality law (which is meant to be addressing such discrimination or inequality) has had little immediate relevance in mitigating these exponential inequalities. This is despite the fact that countries like the UK have a rather recent and state-of-the-art legislation in the field, namely the Equality Act 2010.

Exponential Inequalities offers readers an understanding of how these inequalities came to be and how crises such as the global pandemic, the climate emergency, or the economic downturn, can exacerbate an already untenable situation. It illuminates both the structural and the conceptual, as well as the practical and doctrinal difficulties currently experienced in equality law, and discusses whether or not equality law even has the tools to both understand and then address this contingency.

Written by a team of internationally recognized experts, Exponential Inequalities provides a comparative perspective on the functioning of equality laws across a range of contexts and jurisdictions and represents an essential read for scholars and policy makers alike.

Shreya Atrey is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and is based at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. Her research is on discrimination law, feminist theory, poverty, and disability law. Her monograph, Intersectional Discrimination (OUP 2019), which was runner-up for the Peter Birks Book Prize in 2020, presents an account of intersectionality theory in comparative discrimination law. Shreya is the Editor of the Human Rights Law Review published by OUP. Previously, Shreya was based at the University of Bristol Law School and has been a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, and a Hauser Postdoctoral Global Fellow at the NYU School of Law, New York. She completed BCL with distinction and DPhil in Law on the Rhodes Scholarship from Magdalen College, University of Oxford. She is currently an associate member of the Oxford Human Rights Hub and an Official Fellow of Kellogg College. Sandra Fredman is Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at the University of Oxford, and a professorial fellow at Pembroke College. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 and became a KC (honoris causa) in 2012. She has written and published widely on anti-discrimination law, human rights law, and labour law, including numerous peer-reviewed articles. She was awarded a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2004 to further her research into socio-economic rights and substantive equality. She is South African and holds degrees from the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Oxford. She has acted as an expert adviser on equality law and labour legislation in the EU, Northern Ireland, the UK, India, South Africa, Canada, Malaysia, and the UN; and is a barrister practising at Old Square Chambers. She founded the Oxford Human Rights Hub in 2012, of which she is the Director.

David B. Oppenheimer: Foreword
1: Shreya Atrey and Sandra Fredman: Introduction - Exponential Inequalities: What Can Equality Law Do?
I. UNDERSTANDING EXPONENTIAL INEQUALITIES
2: Aleta Sprague, Amy Raub, and Jody Heymann: Protecting Workers' Equal Rights During Crisis and Recovery: Constitutional Approaches in 193 Countries
3: Diane Elson and Marion Sharples: Addressing Intersecting Inequalities Through Alternative Economic Strategies
4: Aaron Reeves, Kate Andersen, Mary Reader, and Rosalie Warnock: Social Security, Exponential Inequalities, and COVID-19: How Welfare Reform in the UK Left Larger Families Exposed to the Scarring Effects of the Pandemic
5: Meghan Campbell: The Proportionality of an Economic Crisis
6: Kelley Loper: Intersecting Crises and Exponential Inequalities: The View from Hong Kong
II. ADDRESSING EXPONENTIAL INEQUALITIES
Section A: Comparative and International Law
7: Colm O'Cinneide: New Directions Needed: Exponential Inequalities and the Limits of Equality Law
8: Mark Bell: More than an Afterthought? Equality Law in Ireland During the Pandemic
9: Jessica A Clarke: A Public Policy Approach to Inequality
10: Beth Gaze: Responding to Exponential Inequalities in Australia: Beyond the Limits of Equality and Discrimination Law
11: Helena Alviar García: The Interaction of Laws Enabling Gender Equality with Other Legal Regimes: Limiting Progress in Times of Crisis
12: Catherine O'Regan: Equal Access to Vaccines: Exposing the Limits of International Human Rights Law?
Section B: Vulnerable Groups
13: Alysia Blackham: A Life Course Approach to Addressing Exponential Inequalities: Age, Gender, and COVID-19
14: Anna Lawson and Lisa Waddington: Disability in Times of Emergency: Exponential Inequality and the Role of Reasonable Accommodation Duties
15: Jule Mulder: Remote Working, Working from Home and EU Sex-Discrimination Law
16: Marta Machado and Taís Penteado: COVID-19 and Exponential Reproductive Rights-related Inequalities in Brazil
17: Aparna Chandra: A Life of Contradictions: Group Inequality and Socio-Economic Rights in the Indian Constitution
18: Victoria Miyandazi: An Equality-Sensitive Approach to Delivering Socio-Economic Rights During Crises: A Focus on Kenya
19: Catherine Albertyn: The Role of Equality Law in Expanding Access to Social Goods and Services in South Africa: Lessons after the Pandemic

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 165 x 240 mm
Gewicht 748 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Völkerrecht
ISBN-10 0-19-287299-0 / 0192872990
ISBN-13 978-0-19-287299-9 / 9780192872999
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