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Meyerson on Equality Guarantees

By Lawrence Solum

Denise Meyerson (Macquarie University - Division of Law) has posted Equality Guarantees and Distributive Inequity (Public Law Review, Vol. 19, pp. 32-51, 2008) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

Australian bills of rights are confined to the protection of civil and political rights. Economic, social and cultural rights were deliberately excluded from their coverage. This article draws on United Kingdom, Canadian and South African judgments with the aim of showing that the equality guarantees contained in these instruments can nevertheless be used as a vehicle for socio-economic claims. It further argues that there are sound moral and philosophical reasons that justify this approach.

This article was published in the (2008) Volume 19 Public Law Review 32, Copyright Thomson Legal and Regulatory Limited. www.thomson.com.au. Reproduced with permission.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).