Sophia Moreau's Faces of Inequality offers a truly novel, ingenious, pluralist account of the wrongfulness of discrimination which fruitfully combines impressive insight into discrimination law with sophisticated moral analysis. I was particularly impressed with her accounts of discrimination wrongs because of how it subordinates and because of how it typically violates people's right to deliberative freedom. Her book is likely to remain at the center of academic discussions of discrimination in legal theory as well as in moral philosophy for years to come.
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Professor of Political Theory, Aarhus University
Impassioned but analytically scrupulous, theoretical but attentive to the real world, Sophia Moreau's Faces of Inequality is a model of how philosophical reflection can illuminate the law, and how legal scholarship can enrich philosophy. The book represents a major advance in our understanding of why discrimination is wrong and how we might combat it.
Niko Kolodny, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Moreau's pluralist account of why discrimination is wrong demonstrates discrimination's often overlooked moral complexity. Carefully argued and grounded in nuanced descriptions of real cases, Faces of Inequality is sure to be a central text for scholars and students and at the same time will be practically useful to lawyers developing novel legal strategies.
Deborah Hellman, David Lurton Massee Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
The nature, scope, and grounding of our obligation to treat each other as equals is at the center of many contemporary debates in law and philosophy. Professor Moreau's sustained and probing examination of the question in Faces of Inequality is superb.
Lawrence Sager, Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair, Faculty of Law, University of Texas
Sophia Moreau, for some time a leading philosopher on discrimination, has written an excellent book on the topic.
Bastian Steuwer, Economics & Philosophy