Debating social rights / Conor Gearty and Virginia Mantouvalou.
2011
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Author
Title
Debating social rights / Conor Gearty and Virginia Mantouvalou.
Published
Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2011.
Call Number
K1700 .G43 2011
ISBN
9781849460231 (paperback)
184946023X (paperback)
184946023X (paperback)
Description
x, 191 pages ; 22 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)695663163
Summary
" ... Conor Gearty argues that for rights to work effectively in the wider promotion of social justice, they need to be kept as far away as possible from the courts ... he says that lawyers - even well-intentioned lawyers - damage the achievability of the kind of radical transformation in the priorities of states that a genuine commitment to social rights surely necessitates. Virginia Mantouvalou argues that social rights, defined as entitlements to the satisfaction of basic needs, are as 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 for their 'legislation', and examines the role of courts and the role of legislatures in this process, both at a national and an international level."--Page [i].
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
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Table of Contents
Series Editor's Preface
v
Acknowledgements
vii
Acknowledgements / Virginia Mantouvalou
viii
Against Judicial Enforcement / Conor Geary
1
I.
Introduction / Conor Gearty
1
II.
Why Care? / Conor Gearty
3
A.
Doing What Comes Naturally / Conor Gearty
5
B.
Committing to Human Rights / Conor Gearty
11
C.
Rights, Principles and Values / Conor Gearty
15
D.
Summing Up / Conor Gearty
20
III.
How Should We Care? / Conor Gearty
21
A.
Rebirth of International Human Rights / Conor Gearty
23
B.
Doing Human Rights / Conor Gearty
27
C.
Growing Lure of the Legal / Conor Gearty
33
D.
Lawyers' Bandwagon Gathers Pace / Conor Gearty
41
E.
Radical Potential of Rights-Talk / Conor Gearty
47
F.
Necessity of Politics / Conor Gearty
52
IV.
How Can We Tame the Lawyers? / Conor Gearty
54
A.
Delivering Rights / Conor Gearty
55
B.
Challenging Law's Empire / Conor Gearty
57
C.
Bewitching Power of Orthodox Thinking / Conor Gearty
65
D.
Answering the Sceptics / Conor Gearty
71
V.
Conclusion / Conor Gearty
82
In Support of Legalisation / Conor Gearty
85
I.
Introduction / Virginia Mantouvalou
85
II.
Brief, Unhappy History / Virginia Mantouvalou
90
III.
Common Foundations / Virginia Mantouvalou
98
A.
Dignity / Virginia Mantouvalou
99
B.
Liberty / Virginia Mantouvalou
101
C.
Citizenship: Rights and Belonging / Virginia Mantouvalou
105
IV.
Legalisation / Virginia Mantouvalou
107
A.
Conceptual Differences / Virginia Mantouvalou
109
B.
Role of Courts / Virginia Mantouvalou
116
C.
Role of Legislatures / Virginia Mantouvalou
130
V.
Content of Duties and Horizontality / Virginia Mantouvalou
136
A.
Legislative Determination / Virginia Mantouvalou
138
B.
Judicial Determination / Virginia Mantouvalou
141
C.
Horizontal Application / Virginia Mantouvalou
147
VI.
Social Rights and the Foreign Needy / Virginia Mantouvalou
153
A.
Duties to the Nearby Needy / Virginia Mantouvalou
154
B.
Duties to the Distant Needy / Virginia Mantouvalou
161
VII.
Conclusion / Virginia Mantouvalou
169
Bibliography / Virginia Mantouvalou
173
Index / Virginia Mantouvalou
179