CLAW cordially invites you to the Barbara Havelkova presentation entitled 'Can the general principle of equality be a false friend to specific ground-related prohibitions of discrimination?' In the presentation Barbara explores the differences between general guarantees of equality on the one had and specific prohibitions of discrimination.

Abstract: Many legal systems, in both constitutional and statutory law, distinguish between general guarantees of equality on the one hand and specific prohibitions of discrimination on suspect grounds, such as race or sex, on the other. The paper argues that their different normative underpinnings and aims have (and ought to have) consequences for the judicial tasks performed and the connected legal doctrines: the use of comparator, the treatment of symmetry and asymmetry, and burden proof. 

Bio: Barbara Havelková is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and a Law Fellow at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. She holds degrees from Charles University in Prague (Mgr. - Master in Law; summa cum laude), Europa-Institut of Saarland University (LLM) and the University of Oxford (Mst in Legal Research, DPhil).  Barbara’s research and teaching interests include gender legal studies and feminist jurisprudence, equality and anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, EU law and law in post-socialist transitions. Her book, 'Gender Equality in Law: Uncovering the Legacies of Czech State Socialism', was published by Hart/Bloomsbury in 2017, and a volume on ‘Anti-Discrimination Law in Civil Law Jurisdictions’, she co-authored and co-edited, came out in 2019 with Oxford University Press.