Equality Before the Law : Equal Dignity, Wrongful Discrimination, and the Rule of Law Michael P. Foran
In this work, Michael P. Foran, a public law lecturer at the University of Glasgow, combines a theoretical and doctrinal endeavor to analyze the importance of equality in the legal system.
The most significant idea in the book, which is that moral equality ought to be the fundamental normative foundation of the rule of law, is covered in the first half of the book on legal equality. People should be treated in a way that upholds their equal moral standing and conforms to the legal principle of equality before the law.
The author further extends this idea to antidiscrimination law in the second half of the book, stating that it involves the tacit or open denial of the moral equality of those who are protected by the law.
The last chapter concludes in bringing these two perspectives together to support the notion that the law is a public resource that must be utilized to defend the interests of those it governs. This kind of equality principle must look beyond individual rights claims and set the outermost limits of the use of public power.
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