European Equality Law Review 2016/1

Summary:

This third issue contains one section relating the most recent case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and of the European Court of Human Rights and one section detailing the most recent developments in legislation, case law and policy on the national level, as well as four in-depth analytical articles.

• In the field of non-discrimination law, Christopher McCrudden, the Network’s senior expert on EU and human rights law, first provides an article examining the consequences and legal implications of a recent landmark decision of the Court of Justice of the EU, exploring whether the Court has redefined the concepts of direct and indirect discrimination, in particular with regard to the ground of racial or ethnic origin.
• Declan O’Dempsey has authored the second non-discrimination article which provides an up-to-date overview of the Court of Justice’s rich and evolving body of case law on age discrimination in the employment field.
• In the field of gender equality, the first article is authored by Kevät Nousiainen, the Network’s national gender equality expert for Finland, and discusses the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention) and the EU, with a focus on converging standards on violence against women.
• The Network’s acting specialist coordinator for gender equality, Alexandra Timmer, then provides an article examining gender stereotypes as they appear in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU.