Date:30May 2016

As the recent District Court judgment that prohibited bar operators from holding “Ladies’ Night” shows, discrimination law can be controversial. In a recent monograph published by the Oxford University Press, Dr Tarunabh Khaitan provides a philosophical defence of discrimination law. This account places liberty, not equality, at the heart of discrimination law. It provides a common foundation for the prohibition of direct and indirect discrimination and provision for reasonable accommodation. This Dialogue considers various themes of the book, described as “an engaging, and engaged, work on an important area of law, by one of the most interesting new voices in legal theory.” (Leslie Green, University of Oxford)

Tarun Khaitan is an Associate Professor and the Hackney Fellow in Law at Wadham College. He is also an Associate of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. He completed his undergraduate studies (BA LLB Hons) at the National Law School (Bangalore) between 1999-2004. He then attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and completed his postgraduate studies (BCL with distinction, MPhil with distinction, DPhil) at Exeter College. Before joining Wadham, he was the Penningtons Student in Law at Christ Church. OUP has recently published his monograph entitled ‘A Theory of Discrimination Law’.Show lessComments