Appearance, Disability and the Law

Hannah Saunders (Queen Mary University of London)

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Cambridge University Press
30 September 2025

Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law

People with disfigurements often face prejudice, exclusion and discrimination in employment and across other life contexts. Law's response to this evidence is flawed both by its own limited and illogical scope and its failure to understand the perspectives of those people who may need to use it. Drawing on interviews with both people with lived experience of disfigurement and employers, the book sketches out different approaches to the complex social problem of discrimination against people with visible differences. It also asks whether, in our changing social context, law should widen its protection beyond disfigurement.

Would a protected characteristic of appearance offer viable legal rights to the many millions of us who do not have a disfigurement but who are prone to a few spots, whose ears stick out more than we would like, or who are carrying an extra stone in weight?

By: Hannah Saunders (Queen Mary University of London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009605045
ISBN 10: 1009605046
Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Hannah Saunders leads the policy and education work of an international alliance of non-governmental organisations, charities and support groups which campaigns for better recognition of the rights of people with visible differences. She is also a Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.