Working group

Socio-economic inequalities and poverty discrimination

We are a group of legal scholars and practitioners concerned with the structural and pervasive issues arising from socio-economic inequalities and poverty discrimination.The working group aims at promoting and facilitating academic and practical collaborations on the research and tackling of socio-economic inequality and related issues. These contributions are materialised in different forms such as conferences, seminars and workshops, publications, litigation, and policymaking.

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Socio-economic inequalities often escape the grasp of law under the premise of doctrines of neutrality often themselves underlined by economic ideologies. Emerging interpretations challenge the limitations of law in delivering socio-economic justice. Anti-discrimination law has increasingly tackled poverty discrimination as a central issue in addressing the entrenchment of socio-economic inequalities.
Read below some of our contributions to the topic and other useful materials.

Sarah Ganty, Poverty as Misrecognition: What Role for Antidiscrimination Law in EuropeSarah Ganty, Sliding Fast Down the Slippery Slope of Criminalization of Poverty in Strugurel Ion Dian against DenmarkJuan Carlos Benito Sánchez, Towering Grenfell: Reflections around Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Antidiscrimination LawMichael G Marcondes Smith, Equality Restricted: The Problematic Compatibility between Austerity Measures and Human Rights LawCathi Albertyn, Contested substantive equality in the South African Constitution: beyond social inclusion towards systemic justiceSerde Atalay, Housing and Social Control: Reassessing the Protection Asymmetries of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights

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Events

Coming soon: SEIPD Working Group Inaugural Seminar, London 2025Coming soon: Berkeley Annual Conference on Comparative Equality and Anti-discrimination LawBasic Income Earth Network (2025 Conference announced, Rio de Janeiro, August 27-29)