Engineering Equality

An Essay on European Anti-Discrimination Law
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-969337-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

In an age of widespread cutbacks on social spending, the prospects of social policy generally appear to be grim. If noticeable progress has been recently made in the European Union, then it is in regard to rooting out discrimination. Indeed, anti-discrimination law and policy appears to be the one sphere of social policy whose success is causally connected to the European Union.

But how successful can anti-discrimination law be? This book uses legal analysis in order to expose the intrinsic shortcomings of common approaches. Anti-discrimination law fails to provide adequate legal guidance and therefore invites constant supplementation by pedagogical projects of social engineering.

This book offers a genuinely leftist critique on anti-discrimination law, and concludes with a discussion of alternative models of solidarity in the Union.

Zielgruppe

Academics and graduate students of anti-discrimination law; legal philosophers; political scientists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Somek, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Antidiskriminierung (AGG), Gleichbehandlung
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Arbeits- und Sozialrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: Social policy: From domestication to disarmament
2: From legislation to discourse and mobilization
3: Neoliberalism and morality
4: Direct discrimination
5: Normative twist and antinomy
6: Consequences of normative deficiency
7: Moral re-engineering: The neoliberal predicament
8: Beyond inclusion
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Somek, Alexander
Alexander Somek holds the Charles E. Floete Chair in Law at the University of Iowa. Prior to joining the faculty in 2003, he was Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna. He has previously published Individualism: An Essay on the Authority of the European Union with OUP (2009).