English First Legislation: Potential National Origin Discrimination

Legislation and genetic discrimination.

Age Discrimination Legislation in the United States

Legislation prohibiting age discrimination in the United States dates back to the 1960s, when along with the Equal Pay Act and the Civil Rights Act barring discrimination against women and minorities, Congress passed the 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Questions regarding the rationale for and effectiveness of age discrimination legislation are likely to become increasingly important...

2011 national legislation and transnational feminism

Contemporary feminist scholarship seeks the development of transnational conversations between women in different geopolitical spaces in order to confront the problems of a global age. Yet, if these conversations are predicated on Eurocentric and ahistorical understandings of South/North, first/third world and metropole/colony, feminism risks replicating these dichotomies in the name of a unive...

Who Killed the English National Health Service?

The death of the English National Health Service (NHS) has been pronounced many times over the years, but the time and cause of death and the murder weapon remains to be fully established. This article reviews some of these claims, and asks for clearer criteria and evidence to be presented.

Statuta v. Acts: Interpretation, Music, and Early English Legislation

senses such as sight. We see from afar, but we only experience hardness by direct contact, the felt and brute reality of a resisting object.77 A "hard" law, therefore, is a law whose injustice is actually felt and not merely observed. The awareness of the legal system as something embedded in and touching the whole community thus continued to grow. Indeed, to speak of the "gaze" of the law is n...