Constituting economic and social rights / Katharine G. Young.
2012
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Constituting economic and social rights / Katharine G. Young.
Published
Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Call Number
K3240 .Y68 2012
Edition
First edition.
Course Lists
Human Rights and Inequality (Young) by Katherine Young (Spring 2025)
ISBN
9780199641932 (cloth)
0199641935 (cloth)
0199641935 (cloth)
Description
xix, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)794367099
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-335) and index.
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Table of Contents
Table of Cases
xi
Table of Legislation
xv
List of Abbreviations
xviii
1.
Introduction: The Path to Transformation
1
A.
A process-driven, value-based, and interdependent conception
2
B.
"Constituting" rights: a three-part framework
6
C.
Exploring fundamental rights through institutions
15
pt. I
CONSTITUTING RIGHTS BY INTERPRETATION
2.
Interpretive Standpoints
33
A.
Rationalism
34
B.
Consensualism
50
C.
Blurring the distinction
64
3.
Interpreting the Minimum
66
A.
The minimum core in international human rights law
67
B.
Prospects for constitutional law
79
C.
Countering a minimalist discourse
95
4.
Interpreting Limits
99
A.
Limits by design: six modes
101
B.
The justification of limits
118
C.
The test of reasonableness
120
D.
Proportionality in limits
126
pt. II
CONSTITUTING RIGHTS BY ENFORCEMENT
5.
A Typology of Judicial Review
133
A.
Usurpation versus abdication: the two wrongs of enforcement
134
B.
Disaggregating enforcement
136
C.
Evaluating enforcement
139
D.
A typology of judicial review
142
6.
The Catalytic Court
167
A.
The role of the court, as understood by the court
168
B.
The catalytic court
172
C.
The catalytic court in South Africa
174
7.
A Comparative Typology of Courts
192
A.
A typology of role conceptions
193
B.
Elements of supremacy: Colombia
196
C.
Elements of engagement: India
200
D.
Elements of detachment: United Kingdom
206
E.
Courts in their institutional context
212
pt. III
CONSTITUTING RIGHTS BY CONTESTATION
8.
Social Movements and Economic and Social Rights
223
A.
Prologue: the right to health in Ghana
225
B.
Anatomy of an economic and social rights social movement
233
C.
Beyond popular constitutionalism
246
D.
The role of social movements for economic and social rights: South Africa
251
9.
The Governance Function of Economic and Social Rights
256
A.
Prologue: the right to health in South Africa
256
B.
From constitutionalism to (new) governance
262
C.
Experimentalist features of the Treatment Action Campaign
276
D.
A constitutionalist backdrop for experimentalist governance
279
10.
Conclusion: Economic and Social Rights as Human Rights and Constitutional Rights
288
Appendix I
Excerpts from Various Constitutions
300
Appendix II
Excerpts from International Human Rights Instruments
310
Selective Bibliography
317
Index
337