A Critical Commentary on the ECJ’s Judgment in G4S v Achbita

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Robin Bankel is a PHD Candidate in the School of Business, Economics and Law, at the University of Gothenburg. In his research, he specializes on the construction of welfare markets and how rights and legal discourses contribute to shape those markets. He holds an MBA and a MSc in Human Rights, and contributes to the Swedish antiracist blog "Motargument".

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A Critical Commentary on the ECJ’s Judgment in G4S v Achbita

April 5, 2017

Robin Bankel

In March of this year (23/3), Solon Solomon noted here on EJIL:Talk!, that the recent judgment rendered by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in G4S v Achbita, seems to have given private companies in the EU the green light to indirectly discriminate against certain religious minorities, so long as they put in place general bans on…