Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-322) and index.
Contents:
Critical perspectives on social and economic rights, democracy and separation of powers / Karl Klare -- Rights-compromised or rights-savvy? The use of rights-based strategies to advance socio-economic struggles by Abahlali baseMjondolo, the South African shack-dwellers' movement / Jackie Dugard, Tshepo Madlingozi and Kate Tissington -- Resource questions in social and economic rights enforcement: a preliminary view / Lucy A. Williams -- Distribution of resources led by courts : a few words of caution / Helena Alviar García -- Latin America social constitutionalism : courts and popular participation / Natalia Angel-Cabo and Domingo Lovera Parmo -- Deliberative democracy, dialogic justice and the promise of social and economic rights / Roberto Gargarella -- Between activism and deference : social rights adjudication in the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal / Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz -- The tension between property rights and social and economic rights : a case study of India / Namita Wahi -- Claiming the right to safe motherhood through litigation : the Indian story / Sukti Dhital and Jayshree Satpute -- Democratising the socio-economic rights-enforcement process / Lilian Chenwi -- The scope of the judicial role in the enforcement of social and economic rights : limits and possibilities viewed from the South African experience / Dennis M. Davis -- Inclusive interpretations : social and economic rights and the Canadian charter / Bruce Porter -- Adjudicating social and economic rights : can democratic experimentalism help? / Sandra Liebenberg and Katharine G. Young -- The constitutionalisation of social and economic rights / Colm O'Cinneide -- Constitutionally binding social and economic rights as a compelling idea : reciprocating perturbations in liberal and democratic constitutional visions / Frank I. Michelman.
Summary:
"Since World War II, a growing number of jurisdictions have adopted progressive constitutions or entered international commitments that guarantee social and economic rights (SER) in addition to political and civil rights. Parallel developments have occurred at trans-national level with the adoption of treaties which commit signatory states t to respecting and guaranteeing fulfilment of SER for their peoples. This book is a product of the International Social and Economic Rights Project (iSERP), a global consortium of judges, lawyers, human rights advocates, and legal academics who critically examine the effectiveness of SER law in promoting real change in people's lives. The book addresses a range of practical, political, and legal questions under these headings, with acute sensitivity to the racial, cultural, and gender implications of SER and the path-breaking SER jurisprudence now emerging in the "Global South." The book brings together internationally renowned experts in the field of social and economic rights to discuss a range of rights from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. Contributors of the book consider specific issues in the litigation and adjudication of SER cases from the differing standpoints of activists, lawyers, and adjudicators in order to identify and address the specific challenges facing the SER community. This book will be of great use and interest to students and scholars of human rights law and civil liberties, public international law, and development studies"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.