Racial justice is a proactive reinforcement of policies, practices, attitudes and actions that
lead to equal access to opportunities, equitable treatment, and positive impacts and
outcomes for all persons. The book will focus on the reasoning of judicial power,
legislators, police and judges when dealing with racial discrimination in Europe today.
The legislative framework in all the contributions is that of the European Union and
of the Council of Europe, as well as Recommendations no. 7 and n? 15 of the ECRI.1 The
book, as a unit, supports a thesis that acts as a common theme in the different chapters.
This work provides a different perspective to the one commonly found in the academic
world because it upholds a hypothesis which is proven, using the practice of some
European Courts, bound by the standards of the EU and of the Council of Europe against
racial discrimination. The contributions offer a critical insight into the reality in terms
of the application of these standards by the State, and suggest some Lege ferenda goals or
improvements in the application of the laws by the police, the legislator and the judges.