A spokesman for the party leader Jeremy Corbyn told the Independent: "This government's ban would have outlawed council action against apartheid South Africa.
The Texas Legislature adopted it in 1997, after a federal Court of Appeals ruling, the Hopwood decision, had outlawed affirmative action at the University of Texas.
Member governments and the European Parliament watered the measure down, however, removing passages that would have outlawed defensive action against hostile bidders without first getting the consent of all shareholders.
In between the two contentious campaigns was the 1996 passage of Proposition 209, which outlawed affirmative action programs.
Simon Chesterman, a law professor at the National University of Singapore, notes that Britain's tough Official Secrets Act would also outlaw WikiLeaks' actions.
Over the years since the group first came to wider public attention – picketing the funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq – there have been frequent calls to outlaw their actions as hate crimes.
Still, conservatives are pushing hard for a "color-blind" (and gender-blind) Constitution, which would outlaw affirmative action in employment and education.
Those who seek to outlaw affirmative action naively believe that banning it will stop race from being a factor in public life.
California voters were the first to outlaw affirmative action, passing Proposition 209 in 1996, and in the following years, the University of California system expanded an already-robust set of programs to identify and nurture promising low-income students.
"At a minimum the mayor wants new legislation that would outlaw strike action not supported by a majority of all union members, the so called 50% plus 1 threshold," he added.
Against Raz, one could argue, as David Lefkowitz does, that when a person appeals to political participation rights to defend her disobedience she does not necessarily criticise the law for outlawing her action.
