Hanging in the Balance: The Function of Justification in Achieving Womens Equality
By (Author) Meghan Campbell
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Hart Publishing
30th October 2025
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Gender studies: women and girls
Hardback
304
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
This book gives the first in-depth assessment of how justification functions when women are claiming equality. One of its distinctive characteristics is the question of whether any analytical entwining or unwinding of equality and justification enhances the protection of womens rights to equality in constitutional democracies. It proposes an asymmetric relationship between equality and justification, and takes a 3-part approach, looking at theory, practice and methodological design. This is an intriguing, articulate and compelling examination of a question with real and applied significance to human rights and equality lawyers.
Meghan Campbell is Reader in International Human Rights at Birmingham Law School and Deputy-Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, UK.