Key features:

• Extensive chapter notes add critical context to areas of developing law
• Analysis of a range of sources: each chapter includes case law, treaty law, statutory law, regulatory law and legal scholarship
• A comparative problem-based approach, using concrete issues of inequality and discrimination to help students focus on real world concerns
• Examination of key contested topics such as marriage inequality, the rights of persons with disabilities, affirmative action, reproductive rights, employment discrimination and hate speech
• A supplementary online course with additional content and guidance for both students and instructors is available through Stanford Law School.

Written in a thorough yet accessible style and with contributions from leading international legal scholars, this casebook is ideal for lecture courses, seminars and summer programs in equality and anti-discrimination in law schools, as well as undergraduate courses in law, political science and sociology.

Contributors include:D. Allen, P.L. Cherian, D. Collier, J. Damamme, T. Degener, R. Ford, S. Foster, S. Han, K. Loper, S. Misra, D.B. Oppenheimer, M.-C. Pauwels, S. Robin-Olivier, B. Wang, W. Zhou