Learn about equality and anti-discrimination in the context of workplace harassment, hate speech, marriage equality, reproductive rights, and the rights of religious minorities.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) states: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Equality and Non-discrimination is at the core of the entire Declaration that paved the ground for human rights instruments such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
Stanford University is now offering a course on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law. The introductory level course takes 16 weeks to complete and is taught by Richard Thompson Ford, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and David B. Oppenheimer, Clinical Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley.
The course offers a comparative view of Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law around the world with case studies from the United States, Europe, Brazil, South Africa, and India. Each of the sixteen chapters of the course is dedicated to a specific topic including employment discrimination, workplace harassment, gender parity, marriage equality, hate speech, freedom of expression, the rights of religious minorities and other essential issues.
After completing the course participants of the course will be able to outline the sources of equality law, explain how anti-discrimination law applies in different contexts and how legal/social systems around the world tackle inequality and discrimination.
While the course is available free to audit for everyone, learners can opt-in for a Stanford certification for an extra fee. The self-paced course will be especially useful for legal professionals but everyone with an interest in pursuing a human rights career will benefit from completing it.
