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Exploring Social Rights - Between Theory and Practice (Hardcover, Uk Ed.)
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Exploring Social Rights - Between Theory and Practice (Hardcover, Uk Ed.)
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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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