The crumbling public/private divide

Horizontality in European anti-discrimination law

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7724932
AutoresBruno De Witte (0000-0002-4034-5893, European University Institute, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen13
Número5
Páginas515-525
Fecha de publicación2009-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621020903174670
OpenAlexW2066568126
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas14

The European Union has conducted, during the last decade, an active policy of adopting anti-discrimination directives that aim at ensuring greater convergence between member-state laws in this domain. One aspect of this evolution is that the relevant EU legislation forces some states to reconsider their traditional view that fundamental rights should be binding and enforceable only against state authorities and not against private bodies and individuals. This Europe-driven ‘horizontalization’ of anti-discrimination law is a major challenge for many national legal systems and contributes to the emergence of new but not uncontroversial conceptions of inclusive citizenship

Citizenship · Economics · European union · International trade · Law and economics · Legislation · Member state · Member states · Political science · Sociology · Discrimination and Equality Law · Gender Politics and Representation · Human Rights and Development · Law