'Debating Law'is a new series that gives scholarly experts the opportunity to offer contrasting
perspectives on significant topics of contemporary, general interest. In this second volume of …

Exploring Social Rights looks into the theoretical and practical implications of social rights.
The book is organised in five parts. Part I considers theoretical aspects of social rights, and …

In the space of two decades, social rights1 have emerged from the shadows and margins of
human rights discourse and jurisprudence to claim an increasingly central place. In a …

Social rights are controversial in general-and they are even more controversial when courts
are given power to enforce them. Even among those who believe in rights to a minimum …

Despite the lack of socio-economic rights in the US Constitution and the absence of political
will to enforce them, the vast majority of constitutions around the world now include these …

A key reason for resistance to constitutional social rights is that in many democracies there is
reasonable disagreement about the nature and extent of the state's welfare obligations …

Stuart A. Scheingold's landmark work introduced a new understanding of the contribution of
rights to progressive social movements, and thirty years later it still stands as a pioneering …

Postmodern discourse on the moral and political problems of the day-from Afghanistan to
AIDS-is shaped by the rhetoric of human rights. The discourse promotes as its core value the …

For we went... despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance. For we knew
only too well: Even the hatred of squalor Makes the brow grow stern. Even the anger against …

This article contemplates the constitutionalization and concomitant judicial enforcement of
social rights as an avenue through which such rights may be realized domestically. Through …