Courting social justice : judicial enforcement of social and economic rights in the developing world / edited by Varun Gauri, Daniel M. Brinks
Imprint
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
Descript
xix, 363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Introduction: The elements of legalization and the triangular shape of social and economic rights -- Litigating for social justice in post- apartheid South Africa: A focus on health and education -- Accountability for social and economic rights in Brazil -- Courts and socioeconomic rights in India -- Impact of economic and social rights in Nigeria: An assessment of the legal framework for implementing education and health as human rights -- Implementation of the rights to heath care and education in Indonesia -- Transforming legal theory in the light of practice: The judicial application of social and economic rights to private orderings -- New policy landscape: Legalizing social and economic rights in the developing world