Lucy Wang

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Weight Discrimination: One Size Fits All Remedy?

117 Yale L.J. 1900 (2008). Being fat is one of the most devastating social stigmas today. In seeking a legal remedy, commentators and advocates appeal to existing models of employment discrimination: disability, race, sex, and more recently, appearance. Fat people do face discrimination along these fronts. Weight discrimination, however, is a distinct form of discrimination. Weight discrimination blames fat people...

Sep 28, 2008