Debating Social Rights

Zusatztext
This book offers an important and informative contribution to the field of social rights within the realm of human rights. Suitable for all human rights students! and essential reading for postgraduates in the field...Skillfully written in a clear and eloquent manner [the] book provides an insight into an area of human rights that is markedly under-researched by academics.

Informationen zum Autor
Conor Gearty is Professor of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Virginia Mantouvalou is Professor of Human Rights and Labour Law at UCL Faculty of Laws.Klappentext
Debating Law is a new series with a unique style that gives scholarly experts the opportunity to offer contrasting perspectives on significant topics of contemporary general interest which provoke further debate and discussion. In this second volume of the series, author Virginia Mantouvalou argues that social rights, defined as entitlements to the satisfaction of basic needs, are essential for the well-being of the individual and the community as long-established civil and political rights. The real challenge, she suggests, is how best to give effect to social rights. Drawing on examples from around the world, she argues that judicial enforcement of social rights can advance, rather than undermine, democracy. Co-author Conor Gearty acknowledges the value of rights language in legal and political debate. He accepts that human rights are not solely civil and political, and that rights can have a progressive, emancipatory dimension. But, he argues, in order for rights to work effectively
Zusammenfassung
In this book scholarly experts offer contrasting perspectives on the topic of social rights.Inhaltsverzeichnis
Against Judicial Enforcement by Conor Gearty I. Introduction II. Why Care? III. How Should We Care? IV. How Can We Tame the Lawyers? V. Conclusion In Support of Legalisation by Virginia Mantouvalou I. Introduction II. A Brief, Unhappy History III. Common Foundations IV. Legalisation V. Content of Duties and Horizontality VI. Social Rights and the Foreign Needy VII. Conclusion