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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"discrimination law"”.
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Locating Sex: the Rhetorical Contours of Transgender Anti-Discrimination Law
Legislation and litigation aimed at ending discrimination against transgender people has been both critiqued as eliding the structural roots of discrimination and celebrated as an important visibility project that helps to highlight the struggles trans people face. Approaching law as an ongoing …
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Racialised Poverty and Article 14 ECHR: The Role of Equality and Discrimination Law
… phenomenon is accompanied by a steady stream of discrimination complaints under Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) that, at their heart, exemplify different manifestations of racialised poverty in Europe. However, the dominant interpretation of Article 14 impedes the …
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Blind justice?: an investigation into the social and economic effectiveness of discrimination law in the delivery of fair employment for visually impaired people
… job productivity in virtually every workplace. Discrimination is also ostensibly illegal, yet visually impaired people are facing long term exclusion from the labour market. The investigation starts by offering some demographic evidence to justify this inquiry by assembling evidence for the …
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A reflexive approach to the critical interpretation of employment tribunal judgements.
… of standard or burden of proof in sex and race discrimination cases. A reflexive approach is adopted in an attempt to provide a better understanding of discrimination law as an organisational discourse and as a potential force for emancipatory change in the workplace. The research examines the …
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Analysis of legal protection of victims of discrimination and harassment and development of strategies for reform.
… productive and published widely on employment law, especially in the area of discrimination law and the civil law of harassment. I have also researched and been published on aspects of the criminal law. In particular articles involving analysis of the criminal liability of perpetrators of …
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"A Mulato cannot be prejudiced" : the legal construction of racial discrimination in contemporary Brazil
… an in-depth empirical study of Brazilian racial discrimination law, examines the trends in complaining and surprising variation in official decisionmaking over the past decade. I collected more than 300 racial discrimination complaints, police investigations and court proceedings filed since …
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Disability Loophole a critical analysis of the definition of Disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
… issues concerning Section 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. When the Act was first passed in December 1995 it was considered to be a major break through in obtaining equality and protection for disabled people. This research demonstrated how Section 1 of the Disability Discrimination …
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Discrimination, fairness and prediction in policing : fare evasion in New York City
… applied. First I analyze legal precedents on discrimination law to create a framework for understanding whether policy is legally discriminatory. In this framework the fairness of a government policy is judged based on how different groups are treated by the process of carrying out the policy. …
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Is the Gender Reassignment protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 inclusive of the non-binary community?
… people, putting them at a greater risk of discrimination and need for legal support. However, despite this recorded vulnerability, there remains a divisive argument over whether or not non-binary people are legally recognised and therefore protected by the Equality Act 2010. This study …
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Title VII: sex discrimination in higher education
Federal employment law designed to assure equal employment opportunity for faculty has only been applicable to higher education since 1972. Prior to 1972, the higher education world, moreover, was immune from the most comprehensive federal employment law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. …
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Public Law and Immigration Justice
What roles have lawyers played in the British immigration system? Have these roles made the system more just? This thesis tackles these questions by focusing on the doctrines and ideas of public law. Chapter 2 discusses 19th-century legal debates about immigration practices of the British colonies. …
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A technique for direct measurement of skin friction in supersonic combustion flow
Federal employment law designed to assure equal employment opportunity for faculty has only been applicable to higher education since 1972. Prior to 1972, the higher education world, moreover, was immune from the most comprehensive federal employment law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. …
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Intersex, discrimination and the healthcare environment : a critical investigation of current English law
… announcement commences a lifetime of potential discrimination for these children (and arguably for their parents) both in the healthcare environment and in society in general. It might have been thought that when the Equality Act 2010 was passed such discrimination would cease as, according to …
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Context-conscious fairness throughout the machine learning lifecycle
… intersection of multiple domains, including non-discrimination law, statistics, welfare economics, philosophical ethics, and computer science. Literature on algorithmic fairness has predominantly been published in computer science, and while it has been shifting to consider contextual …
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The ideological distinctions between sex and race discrimination as found in selected Supreme Court cases and briefs of counsel
… sexism are analogous. Yet, in recent years, anti-discrimination law, when used in sex discrimination cases, often has been interpreted and implemented quite differently from cases involving race discrimination. This study, using a content analysis based on "grounded theory," compared per- ceptions …
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The Limits to Appearance Autonomy in the Workplace: An Assessment of the Law and Recommendations for Reform in South Africa
… 55 of 1998 (EEA), and protection from appearance discrimination will depend on whether the impugned conduct can be based on an existing ground in the Act. Using dignity as an overarching concept, the thesis explores, through the lens of antidiscrimination law, the extent to which employers can …
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Sexist implications of law’s fidelity to science and reason
… scientificity, and sexism in criminal law, and egalitarianism in constitutional law. It is proposed that sexism in criminal law results from the rationalistic and scientific biases of criminal law practice and discourse. Rationality bears an historical, cultural, and epistemological …
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Employment, discrimination and seeking redress : an analytical study
Discrimination has become more important nowadays, in that awareness is being raised on what discrimination entails and on what effects can result from such differential treatment. The resulting effect of discrimination generally hinders the enjoyment of other essential rights which are inherent to …
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Challenging Right-Wing Extremism in England and Wales and Greece: Tools Available in International, European and National Law
… Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination prohibiting racist associations and racist expression. Nevertheless, we are living in a world where violent far-right entities, such as Golden Dawn of Greece, have received unprecedented electoral support, where xenophobic parties …
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Housing deficits in formerly exclusively Indian townships in South Africa : a case study of Chatsworth, KwaZulu-Natal
A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the academic requirements for the degree of Master in Town and Regional Planning, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2023.
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