Similar prohibitions on requesting age-related information through the hiring course of are already in place in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. Although many scholars argue that “the boundaries between public and private law have gotten blurred”, and that this distinction has turn into mere “folklore” (Bergkamp, Liability and Environment, 1–2). Civil law jurisdictions recognise customized as “the other source of law”; hence, scholars are inclined to divide the civil law into the broad categories of “written law” or legislation, and “unwritten law” (ius non-scriptum) or custom. Yet they tend to dismiss customized as being of slight significance compared to laws …
