Topic
Discrimination
3,366 published works
BuildSmart
Houston’s Minority Contracting Programs Declared Unconstitutional
By John Mark Goodman, Jon Paul Hoelscher
A federal judge in Houston has struck down the race-based aspects of two local contracting programs intended to remedy past discrimination as unconstitutional. The City of Houston’s program set goals…
Religion Clause
Antisemitism Complaint Against George Washington University Dismissed on Procedural Grounds
In Soffer v. George Washington University, (D DC, July 31, 2026), a D.C. federal district court dismissed without prejudice on procedural grounds a complaint filed by two former George Wasington University…
The Criminal Law Blog
Parole & Furlough: A Decision-Making Process or Institutionalized Discrimination?
By Cclsnluj
-Mudrika AgarwalIn this article, I examine offence-based restrictions on parole and furlough, arguing that it currently institutionalises discrimination. To address this, I put forward a case for an individualised, rehabilitation-focused…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
German Labor Court Rejects Nonbinary Applicant’s AGG Claim as Abuse of Rights
By By: Julia S. Kulmegies, LL.M. (Tongji Shanghai 同济大学)
Quick Hits The ArbG Berlin found that a nonbinary person’s employment application was not genuinely aimed at obtaining the position and therefore dismissed the subsequent compensation claim as an abuse…
Legal Futures Blog
HR adviser sacked for anti-Islam tweets sues City law firm
By Neil Rose
Cooper: Standing by postsA senior HR adviser sacked by City firm CMS last year for posting anti-Islamic and anti-transgender comments on X is suing it for discrimination on the grounds…
UK Human Rights Blog
Digital ID scrapped and ECHR jurisdiction in the Court of Appeal
By James Hazell
In the News Digital ID scrapped: On Tuesday, the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, announced that the Government would scrap plans to bring in mandatory digital ID. The policy, announced…
Labor & Employment Law Blog | Labor & Employment Law Section
Profound Changes Afoot to EEOC’s Guidelines and Enforcement in Disparate Impact Cases
As part of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) new National Enforcement Plan (NEP), the commission stated its intent to “eliminate the use of disparate impact liability theories in investigations,”…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
Boundaries of Duty to Accommodate
DECISION: Cillis v. Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, 2025 HRTO 1717 A decision of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (“Tribunal”) explores the boundaries of the duty to accommodate in the workplace, raising important…
California Employment Law Update
EEOC Moves to End Demographic Reporting—But Employers Should Not Change Course Yet
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has taken a significant step toward dismantling one of the federal government’s longest standing employment reporting requirements. On July 21, 2026, the EEOC voted…
Labor and Employment Law Insights
The New York Times Fires Back: Inside the EEOC Lawsuit and the Times’ Counterclaims
By Kevin Koronka, Catarina Colón, Sarah Vincent
The legal battle between the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and The New York Times has escalated into one of the most consequential press-freedom and employment-law clashes in recent…