IJDL Editorial - September 2023
| Published date | 01 September 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/13582291231194226 |
| Author | Laura Carlson,James Hand,Panos Kapotas |
| Date | 01 September 2023 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
Editorial
International Journal of
Discrimination and the Law
2023, Vol. 23(3) 183–184
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IJDL Editorial - September 2023
Welcome to this latest, 91st issue of the International Journal of Discrimination and the
Law. Professors Nicole Busby and Grace James, after over four years and 60 articles
(including, indeed, those of this issue at an earlier stage), have now handed the baton on to
us. We should like to take the opportunity to publicly thank them for their support during
our editorial transition and to express our delight that they are to join the International
Editorial Board. We are also very happy that Prof Lucy Vickersand Dr Rachel Hor ton will
continue as Cases, Legislation and Policy Development Editors.
The four diverse articles in this issue are all, to some and varying extent, concerned
with intersections. We start with Catriona Cannon’s analysis of Muslim women in the
workplace and the Equality Act 2010. Cannon makes the case for an intersectional
response to the labour market disadvantage experienced by Muslim women (through, for
example, intersectionality being a factor when considering proportionality within claims
formally framed on a single characteristic, or through a remedies lens, or through the
interaction with Article 14 of the ECHR).
In ‘Part-time work and retirement in Spain, towards a system without gender dis-
crimination’, Enrique Devesa Carpio, Mar Devesa Carpio, Inmaculada Dom´
ınguez
Fabi´
an, Borja Encinas Goenechea and Robert Meneu Gaya report on the position and
progress made on the treatment of part-time workers, who are predominantly women,
while noting some outstanding issues.
The next two articles look more at the intersections of laws. In ‘For all (Hu)mankind?
The intersection of mental capacity, informed consent and contract law with U.K. space
law’, Alexander Ian Simmonds brings together space-related legislation with the Mental
Capacity Act 2005, contract law and the Equality Act 2010 in exposing risks space-flight
providers may face, particularly with regard to those who, through disability, may have an
impaired ability to consent.
Oliver Leclerc considers the position of whistleblowers and the articulation between
discrimination and freedom of expression, in light of the changes to the French treatment
of whistleblowers following the entry into force of Directive (EU) 2019/1937, addressing
the question of whether “the effectiveness of whistleblower protection should be based on
the resources of discrimination and equality law, or on those of freedom of expression, or
possibly on a combination of the two yet to be fleshed out”. We conclude this issue with a
case commentary from Munehisa Yoshitoshi, Goro Horiguchi and Kiriko Takahashi
which returns us to a consideration of disability and reasonable adjustments, this time in
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