Abstract
Income inequality is at an all-time high in the Europe Union (EU). Implications from the economic crisis which broke out in 2008, and in particularly the austerity measures introduced by Governments in Eurozone countries receiving bailout programmes, created further inequalities, for example between men and women. This paper starts from the hypothesis that whereas other institutions in the EU have played a direct role in tackling the economic crisis, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) may have played a more indirect role, which nonetheless can have an overlooked value in particular for setting direction for legal norms of equality and anti-discrimination in Europe. The paper therefore addresses a legal-empirical question: To what extent does the anti-discrimination case law of the CJEU reflect the increased inequalities in Europe following the economic crisis? Based on a dataset of all anti-discrimination cases of the CJEU, I conduct a quantitative analysis of changes in the case law from before to after the economic crisis. I find that there is only weak evidence, which suggests that the case law of the CJEU reflects the increased inequalities following the economic crisis.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Social Justice, International Courts, and Law
- Articles
- International Economic Law Tribunals and Global Social Justice
- Justice and Authority in Investment Protection
- Justice and the Reform of International Investment Law
- Corporate Social Responsibility in the Legal Framework of Global Value Chains
- Anti-discrimination Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union before and after the Economic Crisis
- Who Mobilizes the Court? Migrant Rights Defenders Before the Court of Justice of the EU
- Book Reviews
- Yong-Shik Lee: Law and Development: Theory and Practice