Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the Constitution itself says. For more content from ...

In the past few days, the Supreme Court has both affirmed and threatened equality in the US. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Leonore Carpenter of Temple University Beasley School of Law discusses the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit’s opinion in two same-sex marriage cases and where the ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said the fundamental right to equality guarantees "factual and not formal equality", and if different persons are not similarly situated, a classification is permissible.

Currently, our family law is supposedly based on the principle of gender equality. However, despite this foundation, both formal and substantive discrimination persist. It is imperative to apply a ...

Despite having won formal equality, the lack of an organised women's movement means that the Howard government has been able to take back a lot of the reforms won as a result of the struggles of the ...

The theme of this year's World Day of Social Justice is“Achieving Social Justice through Formal Employment”. Gaining access to formal employment can greatly reduce poverty. As it is, more than 60% of ...

"I am making the argument that those issues (of inequality and disparity) need to rise to prominence and that we can't just think that passing a non-discrimination law and winning marriage is the end ...

It could be argued that the conceptualisation of gender equality is subjective and perhaps even relative because of the varied perspectives from which it is understood. For this reason, the debate ...