Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

Anti Discrimination Law

Anti Discrimination Law

Anno accademico 2016/2017

Sommario insegnamento

• Obiettivi formativi
• Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
• Modalità di insegnamento
• Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
• Attività di supporto
• Programma
• Testi consigliati e bibliografia
• Note
• Strumenti didattici

Obiettivi formativi

The theories and practices of anti-discrimination law will be analysed in order to help students to make systematic interpretation of the various sources of law regarding discrimination and to improve the students' proficiency in analyzing judicial cases.

Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

By the end of the course students should have an overall awareness of the multilevel protection from different forms of discrimination and should be able to critically analyse the case-law  interpreting the equality principle.

Modalità di insegnamento

Class participation is strongly encouraged since students will have to read and discuss  real cases selected by the lecturer. Besides, public interest lawyers as well as experts of litigation strategies and human rights lobbying will co-teach some classes.

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

Final exam is written. The evaluation of students attending classes will include active class participation.

Attività di supporto

Powerpoint presentations, readings and judicial decisions will be uploaded on the Moodle platform.

Programma

The course will focus on equality law in European countries. Particular attention will be paid to recent developments in the protection of the right to non discrimination on the basis of gender, race, religion, age, disability , sexual orientation and gender identity at the national level with special regard to the implementation of European directives. The course will explore such issues in a range of contexts, including education, employment and voting in the light of most significant domestic constitutional case-law as well as through the European Court of Human Rights and and the Court of Justice of the European Union leading cases. The last part of the course will be dedicated to the role of advocacy, lobbying and litigation strategies in combating discrimination.

- E. Ellis, P. Watson (2012), EU Anti-Discrimination Law, Oxford: OUP, II ed. (Chapters 1, 3, 4)

- S. Fredman, “Emerging from the Shadows: Substantive Equality and Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights”, (2016) Human Rights Law Review, pp. 273-301.

-  R. Kiska, " Hate Speech: A Comparison between the European Court of Human Rights and the United States Supreme Court Jurisprudence", (2012) Regent University Law Review, pp. 107-151.

Note

Tabella degli orari

• Materiale didattico
• Bacheca appelli
• Vai a Moodle
• Visita i forum