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European Court of Justice Rules Minimum Height Requirement for Police Academy Discriminatory Against Women (October 18, 2017) [1]

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International Law in Brief [2]
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Caitlin Behles

On October 18, 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled [3] in Ypourgos Ethnikis Pedias kai Thriskevmaton v. Maria-Eleni Kalliri that a law requiring a minimum height for entry into a police school regardless of an individual’s sex may constitute unlawful discrimination against women. According to the press release [4], the Court found that a minimum height requirement for men and women constituted indirect sex discrimination because women were far more often at a disadvantage than the men. However, the Court stated that such a law would not be discriminatory where two conditions are met: “(1) the provision of law must be objectively justified by a legitimate objective, such as the operational capacity and proper functioning of police services, and (2) the means of achieving that aim must be appropriate and necessary.”


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[1] https://www.asil.org/blogs/european-court-justice-rules-minimum-height-requirement-police-academy-discriminatory-against
[2] https://www.asil.org/blog-name/international-law-brief
[3] http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=9ea7d0f130d5400727ee26fb4bc28d8fe8da5bcf3235.e34KaxiLc3eQc40LaxqMbN4PaNaQe0?text=&docid=195664&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=1183883
[4] https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2017-10/cp170106en.pdf