Welcome to this issue of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law which consists of three rich and thought-provoking articles offering insights and critiques of the laws of three very different jurisdictions, yet which share a common theme: who should anti-discrimination law protect? The use of individual or group identity as a means of achieving equality has always been questionable. Which specific identities or characteristics should such an approach include and exclude? The need to measure or compare the relevant treatment or behaviour received or experienced on the grounds of an identity or characteristic against that received or experienced by those without the identity or characteristic can itself be problematic. Such an approach necessitates the development of a standard or normative model as a means of providing a paradigm against which all else is measured or compared. This can have the effect of ‘othering’ or excluding those who do not – or cannot – conform to the paradigm created which may represent a fictive ideal.

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欢迎阅读《国际歧视与法律杂志》的这一期其中包含三篇引人深思的文章，提供对三个截然不同的司法管辖区的法律的见解和批评，但它们具有一个共同的主题：反歧视法应保护谁？使用个人或团体身份作为实现平等的手段一直令人质疑。这种方法应包括和排除哪些特定的身份或特征？需要以身份或特征为基础来衡量或比较所接受或经历的相关治疗或行为与没有身份或特征的人所接受或经历的相关治疗或行为本身可能是有问题的。这种方法有必要开发标准或规范模型，以作为提供范式的手段，对所有其他范式进行衡量或比较。