On April 21, 2022, the YLS ELA together with the Harvard European Law Association hosted a virtual event discussing the prohibition of the headscarf in the public sphere from comparative US-EU perspectives with Prof. Eva Brems (Ghent University), Dr. Martijn van den Brink (Hertie School), Dr. Anna Piela (Northwestern University), Dr. Amel Boubekeur (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales). The recording can be accessed here and reading suggestions can be found below.
Reading suggestions:
E. Eva. “Hidden under Headscarves? Women and Religion in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights”, Religion & Human Rights, vol. 16, no. 2–3, 2021, pp. 173–200.
E. Eva (ed.), The Experiences of Face Veil Wearers in Europe and the Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
M. van den Brink, When can religious employers discriminate? The scope of the religious ethos exemption in EU law, European Law Open, 2022, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-law-open/article/when-can-religious-employers-discriminate-the-scope-of-the-religious-ethos-exemption-in-eu-law/1380E2E1692B0DAF1BAA0F327E809A43.
M. van den Brink, Pride or Prejudice?: The CJEU Judgment in IX v Wabe and MH Müller Handels GmbH, VerfBlog, 2021/7/20, https://verfassungsblog.de/pride-or-prejudice/.
A. Piela, Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
A. Piela, Wearing the Niqab in the UK: Exploring the Embodied “Shape a Moral Action Can Take”, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 87, Issue 2, 2019, pp. 512–542.
A. Boubekeur, France’s burka barrier, The guardians, 25 June 2009: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/jun/25/france-burka-veil-controversy