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Dagmar Schiek, Lisa Waddington, Mark Bell (eds.) with the collaboration of Tufyal Choudhury, Olivier De Schutter, Janneke Gerards, Aileen McColgan and Gay Moon, Cases, Materials and Text on National, Supranational and International Non-Discrimination Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2007) cxix + 998 pp (ISBN 978-1-84113-748-3)

Cover Note

This is the fourth book in the Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe series, developed for use throughout Europe and aimed at those who teach, learn or practise law with a comparative or European perspective. It is the result of the collaborative efforts of a panel of experts from various EU Member States. In common with earlier books in the series, this casebook presents cases and other materials (legislative materials, international and European materials, excerpts from books or articles, etc.). As non-discrimination law is a comparatively new subject, the chapters search for and develop the concepts of discrimination law on the basis of a wide variety of young and often still emerging case law and legislation. The result is a comprehensive textbook with materials from a wide variety of EU Member States. The book illustrates the distinct relationship between international, European and national legislation in the field of non-discrimination law. It covers the grounds of discrimination addressed in the Racial Equality and Employment Equality Directives, as well as non-discrimination law relating to gender. In so doing, it covers the law of a large number of EU Member States, alongside some international comparisons.

Table of Contents

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Country Codes

This Casebook explores a greater number of jurisdictions than previous volumes in the series (it includes material from almost all 27 EU Member States). To avoid confusion, the familiar single-letter country codes have been replaced with two-letter codes. Most country codes correspond with the appropriate ISO code. However, the country codes used in the casebook and on this website stay closer to natural intuition when referring to the United Kingdom or its constituent countries. GB merely refers to Great Britain and not, unlike the same ISO country code, to the United Kingdom as a whole. GB was used to refer to England, Scotland and Wales, if the law in these jurisdictions differs from that in Northern Ireland. NIR was used when reference is made to instruments that are specific to Northern Ireland. Otherwise, i.e. whenever – and only if – the situation is the same in the whole of the United Kingdom, UK was used. This Casebook also discusses a wider variety of instruments originating from the Council of Europe, as opposed to previous volumes which did not go beyond the ECHR and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECtHR). Therefore the code ECHR has been avoided; instead CoE is used to refer to all instruments that are related to the Council of Europe. The Casebook Non-Discrimination Law includes a full list of country codes.