Berkeley Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group
Who We Are:
We are a group of scholars from multiple academic disciplines from
five continents, joined together by an interest in the study of
comparative anti-discrimination law. Some of us are senior scholars
with endowed chairs, others are junior faculty or graduate students.
Where We Are:
We teach and study at dozens of universities, including:
- Berkeley
- Cardozo Law School
- Deakin University, Australia
- European University Institute, Florence
- Fordham University
- Free University of Brussels
- Hanyang University School of Law, Korea
- Harvard
- Humboldt University, Berlin
- Indian Institute of Public Administration
- Instituto de Derecho Comparado Franco-Argentino
- Jiao Tong University (Shanghai)
- King’s College London
- Loyola Law School
- LUMSA University (Rome)
- Maastricht University, the Netherlands
- Masaryk University-Brno, Czech Republic
- National University of Ireland (Galway)
- New York University
- Sciences-Po Paris
- The Sorbonne
- University of Bologna
- University of Brescia
- University of California, Irvine
- University of Iceland
- University of Leicester
- University of Oxford
- University of Parix X
- University of Valencia, Spain
- University of York
- Yale
Others of us can be found at government organizations, including the French
anti-discrimination agency and the European Commission, and NGO’s,
including the Open Society Justice Initiative.
What We Do:
We meet more or less monthly, face-to-face in Berkeley, and by
internet-based video conference from our homes and offices around the
world, to present our work in progress, and to discuss developments in
comparative anti-discrimination law. Recent presentations have
included: the European Court of Human Rights Crucifix in the classroom
case, the question of “color-blindness” in the United States and
Europe, comparative affirmative action, the development of disability
rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities, same-sex marriage in the United States and Europe,
and the evolving equality jurisprudence of the European Court of
Justice.