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 …

Part I. Overview: 1. The justiciability of social rights: from practice to theory Malcolm Langford
2. The challenges of crafting remedies for violations of socio-economic rights Kent Roach 3 …

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

'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 …

A life that achieves the full promise of human dignity requires, among other things, escape
from premature death, the resources to withstand debilitating disease, the ability to read and …

This book is concerned with issues of state responsibility for the meeting of health and
welfare needs in a post-welfare landscape. Historically, legal mechanisms for protecting …

After the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ('UDHR'), which
included a relatively full catalogue of human rights, the UN General Assembly instructed the …

I believe it is important for governments and international institutions, including the World
Bank, to encourage research into social and economic rights in developing countries, and I …

Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal
worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the" Cinderella" of …