Chapters

• Uses, abuses and non-uses of intersectionality before the European Court of Justice
• Overview
• There and back again: travels of a concept
• Intersectionality and law
• My own central claim
• Nodes – the basic concept
• Some more detail
• Overview
• Positive EU law supports intersectionality
• Why should we use it?
• Precondition: awareness for power imbalances (asymmetries)
• Overview
• CJEU Case law…
• Overview
• Intersectionality and Grounds
• ECJ C-335/11 Ring & Skouboe Werge
• C-335/11 why not disability?
• Earlier case law
• Case 335/11 (Ring): concept of disability
• A new notion of disability?
• Case 335/11 (Ring): concept of disability
• Further cases on disability
• Overview
• The Bermuda triangle for intersectionality
• Parris – the ECJ’s De Graffenreith moment?
• AG Kokott (Parris)
• Court (Parris)
• Achbita
• Bougnaoui case
• AG Sharpstone - Bougnaoui
• Court (Bougnaoui)
• Why use intersectionality??
• Cautious conclusion
• Main references