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  • Exploring Social Rights: Between Theory and Practice

    Exploring Social Rights by Barak-Erez, Daphne; Gross, Aeyal;

    Between Theory and Practice

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Hart Publishing
    • Date of Publication 19 December 2007
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781841136134
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages416 pages
    • Size 234x156x32 mm
    • Weight 821 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Exploring Social Rights looks into the theoretical and practical implications of social rights.

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    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 looks into their place within political and legal theory and within the human rights tradition; Part II looks at the status of social rights in international law, with reference to the challenge of globalisation and to the significance of specific regional regulation (such as the European System); Part III includes discussions of various legal systems which are of special interest in this area (Canada, South Africa, India and Israel); Part IV looks at the content of a few central social rights (such as the right to education and the right to health); and Part V discusses the relevance of social rights to distinct social groups (women and people with disabilities). The articles in the book, while using the category of social rights, also challenge the separation of rights into distinct categories and question the division of rights to 'civil' vs 'social' rights, from a perspective which considers all rights as 'social'. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with human rights, the legal protection of social rights and social policy.

    'Social rights are the stepchildren of the human rights family. Are they really 'rights'? Can courts enforce them? And does it make any difference when they try? This remarkable collection of essays by distinguished scholars offers important new responses to all the basic questions. Ranging across disciplinary and national boundaries and brimming with both theoretical and practical insights, the book is especially welcome in this moment of mounting inequalities and growing interest in the possibilities and perils of social rights.'
    William E Forbath, Lloyd M Bentsen Chair in Law and Professor of History,
    University of Texas at Austin

    'At the auspicious moment of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and more than half a century since the beginning of the Human Rights Revolution-a time characterized by the end of the cold war, globalization and privatization, comes this important compilation which critically revisits the international commitment to social rights, and reconceives its core distinguishing principles-from crosscutting comparative, theoretical and practical perspectives-illuminating our commitment to human security.'
    Ruti Teitel, Ernst Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School.
    Author, 'Transitional Justice' (OUP 2002)

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    Table of Contents:

    1 Introduction: Do We Need Social Rights? Questions in the Era of
    Globalisation, Privatisation, and the Diminished Welfare State
    DAPHNE BARAK-EREZ AND AEYAL M GROSS
    Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on Social Rights
    2 The Constitution, Social Rights and Liberal Political Justification
    FRANK I MICHELMAN
    3 Failed Decolonisation and the Future of Social Rights: Some Preliminary Reflections
    UPENDRA BAXI
    4 'If you don't pay, you die': On Death and Desire in the Postcolony
    LUCIE WHITE
    Part II: Global and Regional Perspectives on Social Rights
    5 Stuck in a Moment in Time: The International Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
    YUVAL SHANY
    6 Social Rights and Social Policy: Transformations on the International Landscape
    KERRY RITTICH
    7 Indirect Protection of Social Rights by the European Court of Human Rights
    EVA BREMS
    Part III: National Perspectives on Social Rights
    8 Social Rights Litigation in India: Developments of the Last Decade
    JAYNA KOTHARI
    9 Socio-Economic Rights: The Promise and Limitation-The South African Experience
    DENNIS M DAVIS
    10 Social Rights in Canada
    PATRICK MACKLEM
    11 Social Citizenship: The Neglected Aspect of Israeli Constitutional Law
    DAPHNE BARAK-EREZ AND AEYAL M GROSS
    Part IV: Implementing Specific Social Rights
    12 The Many Faces of the Right to Education
    YORAM RABIN
    13 The Right to Health in an Era of Privatisation and Globalisation: National and International Perspectives
    AEYAL M GROSS
    14 The Right to Work-The Value of Work
    GUY MUNDLAK
    Part V: Social Rights of Special Groups
    15 The Social Rights of People with Disabilities: Reconciling Care and Justice
    NETA ZIV
    16 Social Rights as Women's Rights
    DAPHNE BARAK-EREZ

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