Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

Anti Discrimination Law

Anti Discrimination Law

Anno accademico 2017/2018

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 interpretations 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 and fictional cases selected by the lecturer. Public interest lawyers as well as experts of litigation strategies and human rights lobbying will intervene during the course.

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

Final exam is written. Active class participation will be part of the evaluation of students attending classes.

Attività di supporto

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

Programma

The course will begin with an introduction to the different concepts of equality and an overview of the U.S., European, and other national and international anti-discrimination law systems. 

Particular attention will be paid to recent developments in the protection from discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, disability at the European level in light of the 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 final part of the course will be dedicated to the role of advocacy, lobbying and litigation strategies in combating discrimination.

- D. Oppenheimer, S.R. Foster, S.Y. Han, R.T. Ford (2017), Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, 2nd edition, Berkeley (Chapters 1,2 and 4 - 13,14 and 16)

- E. Ellis, P. Watson (2012), EU Anti-Discrimination Law, 2nd edition, Oxford (Chapters 1, 3 and 4)

Note

Tabella degli orari

Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday

2-4 pm

Room C3

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