A Missed Opportunity for the Supreme Court of India – The Appellant with Learning Disability and Indirect Discrimination
Image Description: A picture of the Supreme Court of India taken from inside the building. In a notable judgement delivered in May [Naman Verma v. Director, Indian institute of Technology...
EU Headscarf Bans: The CJEU’s missed opportunity for reflection on neutrality in IX v Wabe and MH Müller Handels v MJ
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has been widely criticised for their decisions in the popular ‘headscarf cases’, Achbita and Bougnaoui. The Court in Achbita permitted private...
Algorithms and Education: A New Frontier of Discrimination?
In this brief post, I want to demonstrate how ostensibly neutral and efficient algorithms can cause discrimination in education. Last year, the national advanced level qualifications (‘A-levels’) exams in the...
Intra-Group Discrimination and the CJEU
Does discrimination cover situations in which the differing treatment is imposed on persons within a group sharing a protected characteristic? The Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court)...
