Éliane Vogel-Polsky
Brussels, Belgium
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Alberto Alemanno: “Because she used strategic litigation to establish gender equality as a fundamental EU principle, and because she showed how a single well-crafted legal case can reshape an entire constitutional order.”
Belgian labour lawyer (1926-2015) and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. She argued the landmark 1976 Defrenne v. Sabena case before the European Court of Justice, which held that the equal-pay provision of the Treaty of Rome had direct horizontal effect on private employment contracts. The ruling reshaped European social law and remains the foundation of EU sex-equality jurisprudence. Co-founder of the European Network of Women, advisor to the European Commission on equality policy
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