TY - JOUR
T1 - New institutions for promoting equality in Europe: legal transfers, national bricolage and European governance
AU - de Witte, B.
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - The 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.
AB - The 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.
U2 - 10.5131/AJCL.2011.0019
DO - 10.5131/AJCL.2011.0019
M3 - Article
SN - 0002-919X
VL - 60
SP - 49
EP - 74
JO - The American Journal of Comparative Law
JF - The American Journal of Comparative Law
IS - 1
ER -