Engineering Equality

Alexander Somek holds the Charles E. Floete Chair in Law at the University of Iowa. Prior to joining the faculty in 2003, he was Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna. He has previously published Individualism: An Essay on the Authority of the European Union with OUP (2009).

• Introduction ; 1. Social policy: From domestication to disarmament ; 2. From legislation to discourse and mobilization ; 3. Neoliberalism and morality ; 4. Direct discrimination ; 5. Normative twist and antinomy ; 6. Consequences of normative deficiency ; 7. Moral re-engineering: The neoliberal predicament ; 8. Beyond inclusion ; Bibliography

Somek's sophisticated argument...illustrates the importance of a coherent rationale to guide the evolution of ADL. His book demonstrates well how in the absence of this, ADL is vulnerable to public attack...use the book to begin an essential debate on the foundation and rationale for ADL in the 21st century that recognises its history in the 18th and 19th.