Courting Social Justice

Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World
Herausgeber: Brinks, Daniel M.; Gauri, Varun

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780521145169
• ISBN-10: 0521145163
• Artikelnr.: 29011380

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the elements of legalization, and the triangular shape of
social and economic rights Varun Gauri and Daniel M. Brinks; 2. Litigating
for social justice in post-apartheid South Africa: a focus on health and
education Jonathan Berger; 3. Accountability for social and economic rights
in Brazil Florian F. Hoffmann and Fernando R. N. M. Bentes; 4. Courts and
socio-economic rights in India Shylashri Shankar and Pratap Bhanu Mehta; 5.
The impact of economic and social rights in Nigeria: an assessment of the
legal framework for implementing education and health as human rights Chidi
Anselm Odinkalu; 6. The implementation of the rights to health care and
education in Indonesia Bivitri Susanti; 7. A new policy landscape:
legalizing social and economic rights in the developing world Helen
Hershkoff; 8. Transforming legal theory in the light of practice: the
judicial application of social and economic rights to private orderings
Daniel M. Brinks and Varun Gauri.