Chairs:

• Almas Shaikh almas.shaikh@lmh.ox.ac.uk
• Gideon Basson gideon.basson@gtc.ox.ac.uk

SPEAKERS

Carolina

Salas

Filip	Jelinek
Jiaqi	Zhang
Rawletta	Barrow

Non-discrimination and equality laws run through constitutional and international human rights as foundational commitments. They stand as reminders of hard fought struggles that have shaped both the language and architecture of constitutional and international norms. Over decades, pushes for legal refinement, coupled with sustained political mobilisation, have moved nondiscrimination and equality laws toward a more substantive conception of equality, recognising indirect and intersectional forms of discrimination, and securing a stronger foothold for positive measures and affirmative action. Despite these shifts, deep inequalities persist and have morphed into complex structural forms. The categories around which equality and discrimination laws have been organised – their familiar grounds – have disrupted very little in the way inequality persists around them. Without sustained interventions, these structural inequalities will replicate themselves into the foreseeable future. Within the broader search for sustainable constitutional and legal frameworks that can leverage change and adapt to change, the question arises: should equality and non-discrimination laws and their apparatus be treated as settled legacies, or as legal tools that demand we make these struggles anew? Can they be recast as imperfect yet vital resources that remind us of past struggles, while also compelling us to confront structural inequalities in the present, whether by opening up transformative pathways or by operating as a credible framework that can coexist with, or even prefigure, more abolitionist and revolutionary projects? We invite abstracts relevant to any of these questions.nes relevantes para cualquiera de estas preguntas.