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The Anti-stigma Principle and Legal Protection from Fattism - hybrid event
‘Fattism’ has been described as the last acceptable prejudice. Discrimination on the grounds of weight is experienced regularly by women and men in relation to employment as well as access to goods and services. As I show in this article, it can also be seen as a form of intersectional discrimination. Yet a legal remedy for weight discrimination exists in just a few countries. In this essay, I consider why legal protection is so limited: I highlight the influence of the logic of immutability and suggest that an alternative logic – an anti-stigma principle – should be used to guide the evolution of anti-weight discrimination law.
Please email axelle.duquesnoy@uehiro.ox.ac.uk for the link to join online.
Date:
28 November 2025, 15:00
Venue:
Littlegate House, 16-17 St Ebbe's Street OX1 1PT
Venue Details:
Uehiro Oxford Institute, suite 9 Lecture room, please press buzzer 1
Speaker:
Professor Iyiola Solanke (Jacques Delors Professor of European Union Law, University of Oxford and Fellow of Somerville College)
Organiser:
Binesh Hass (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
axelle.duquesnoy@uehiro.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://bookwhen.com/uehiro#focus=ev-sgpum-20251128150000
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Axelle Duquesnoy
