Bostock v Clayton County

US Supreme Court, 590 US_ (2020)

Guest post by Ed Capewell, 11 KBW

As Europeans, it is easy for us to assume that we have nothing to learn from the USA when it comes to anti-discrimination law. Surely a legal system which tolerated de jure racial segregation until 1965, and which was still prosecuting gay men in the 1990s, has nothing to teach the nations of Europe, with their well-established and comprehensive codes of equality laws? Well, perhaps. Continue reading