European Equality Law Review 2020/2

Summary:

This issue opens with four in-depth analytical articles.

• The first article, by David Oppenheimer from the Berkley Centre on Comparative Equality and Anti-discrimination Law, discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionally affected disadvantaged people in the US.
• The second article, by Birte Böök, Franka van Hoof, Linda Senden and Alexandra Timmer of the gender equality coordination team of Utrecht University, looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected gender equality in the EU from a EU law perspective.
• The third article, by Jakub Tomšej, the non-discrimination expert for Czechia, examines the sanction systems under the Racial Equality and Employment Equality Directives, comparing legislation and practice in Slovakia, Czechia and Poland.
• The final article, by diversity and inclusion consultant Yamam Al-Zubaidi, provides an analytical overview of the potential uses of ethnic data and its practical effects in discrimination cases, with a particular focus on Sweden and the United Kingdom but also drawing from experiences in Finland, France and Germany.

Similar to previous issues of this publication, an overview of relevant case law of the Court of Justice of the EU and of the European Court of Human Rights then follows. Finally, the section on national developments contains brief summaries of the most important developments in legislation, case law and policy at the national level in the 36 countries covered by the network.

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