Comparative Discrimination Law: Historical and Theoretical Frameworks

Human history is marked by group and individual struggles for emancipation, equality and self—expression. This first volume in the Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination Law briefly explores some of the history underlying these efforts in the field of discrimination law. A broad discussion of the historical development of issues of discrimination is first set out, looking at certain international, regional and national bases for modern discrimination legal structures. Sev...