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Discrimination: the limits of the law

01 January 1991

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Discrimination: the limits of the law
libdoc November=1992

Author: Hepple, Bob and Erika M Szyszczak
Publisher: Mansell, 1992 pp481 Index
Keywords: Law Racism Women Germany US

Contents:
This book "is a collection of 23 essays by leading experts who
explore the aims and limits of law in regulating
discrimination...The main focus is on racial discrimination, but
the essays draw generally on experience in combating sex
discrimination and other forms of discrimination. There is
critical examination of the civil rights model of
anti-discrimination law, both in the USA and in the United
Kingdom, of the principal of equal treatment in EEC law and of
approaches to compensatory discrimination, with reference to
India, Malaysia and Southern Africa, as well as positive action
in Europe and the USA." (Publishers text)

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