"This article explores the implications for anti-discrimination law of management theorising about diversity. In the first main section we take an empirical study of diversity management in investment banks in the UK as the starting point for an exploration of the legal issues that flow from adoption by employers of diversity ideas. We expose certain tensions between the diversity model and the legal framework and make practical suggestions for reconciling the two approaches. We also set out attractive features of the diversity perspective for achieving equality at work and demonstrate that the law seems to be moving closer to this position. The second half of the essay is concerned with highlighting the main issues of principle that should be addressed if the law is helpfully to adapt to the diversity trend in management thinking."

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