This paper explores how European gender equality law communicates in the contemporary democratic public sphere. It will analyse several gender discrimination cases of the European Court of Human Rights as well as the Court of Justice of the European Union and how judgements of these courts communicated and defined the concept of gender equality, and redefined and broadened this concept from early cases such as Abdulaziz, Cabales and Balkandali v The United Kingdom to more recent cases such as Land Brandenburg v Ursula Sass and Leyla Sahin v Turkey. Trying to answer how the law communicates, this paper will show that the law is not a static and immutable system, independent of historical, political, social and cultural contexts. On the contrary, the legal system represents a dynamic structure, which is continuously revised, and which is socially, historically and politically constructed.

本文探讨了欧洲性别平等法如何在当代民主公共领域进行交流。它将分析欧洲人权法院以及欧洲联盟法院的一些性别歧视案件，以及这些法院的判决如何传达和定义性别平等的概念，并从早期案件中重新定义和扩大该概念。代表阿卜杜勒阿齐兹（Abdulaziz），卡巴莱斯（Cabales）和巴尔坎达利（Balkandali）诉英国案，处理最近的案件，例如兰勃兰登堡（Land Brandenburg）诉乌苏拉·萨斯（Ursula Sass）和莱拉·萨因（Leyla Sahin）诉土耳其。试图回答法律的交流方式，本文将证明法律不是静态的，不变的系统，独立于历史，政治，社会和文化环境。相反，法律制度代表着一个动态的结构，它不断地被修改，并且是在社会，历史和政治上构造的。