New Institutions for Promoting Equality in Europe: Legal transfers, national bricolage and European governance

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dc.contributor.authorDE WITTE, Bruno
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-21T10:15:57Z
dc.date.available2012-02-21T10:15:57Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThe recent evolution of European Union equality law, and the equality law of single European countries, is marked by the increased attention given to the procedural and institutional preconditions for the effective protection against discrimination. In this context, the creation of public bodies specially tasked with the promotion of equal treatment (equality institutions), which used to be a specific feature of only some European countries, such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, as well as some non-European countries such as the United States, is now common all over Europe. The immediate reason for this development is that equality institutions have been imposed on all EU Member States by means of a series of EU directives in the early years of this century. From a comparative law perspective, we can observe here an interesting example of legal transfer which leaves much room for bricolage at the national level, and has given rise to a hybrid legal regime which combines legal rights with softer mechanisms of governance.en
dc.identifier.citationAmerican Journal of Comparative Law, 2012, 60, 1, 49-74en
dc.identifier.doi10.5131/AJCL.2011.0019
dc.identifier.issn1952-2011
dc.identifier.issn0002-919X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/20514
dc.language.isoenen
dc.titleNew Institutions for Promoting Equality in Europe: Legal transfers, national bricolage and European governanceen
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