Rights, scarcity, and justice : an analytical inquiry into the adjudication of the welfare aspects of human rights / Gustavo Arosemena.
2014
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Title
Rights, scarcity, and justice : an analytical inquiry into the adjudication of the welfare aspects of human rights / Gustavo Arosemena.
Published
Cambridge [England] ; Antwerp [Belgium] ; Portland [Oregon] : Intersentia, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Call Number
K3240 .A76 2014
ISBN
9781780682754
1780682751
1780682751
Language Note
Summary also in Dutch.
Description
xi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)895729955
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200).
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Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
xi
Introduction
1
Methodological Preliminaries
9
ch. 1
From ESC Rights to Welfare Duties
19
1.
The orthodoxy: Historical foundations and main arguments
20
1.1.
Political opposition to a unified treatment of CP and ESC rights
20
1.2.
Academic opposition to a unified treatment of CP and ESC rights
26
2.
The results: a strong dichotomy between CP rights and ESC rights and its connection to justiciability
29
3.
The division between CP rights and ESC rights as a false dichotomy
30
4.
Alternative dichotomies and trichotomies
32
5.
Dismantling the categories
34
6.
Assessing the objections
36
6.1.
Levels of cost
36
6.2.
Purpose
38
7.
Constructing welfare duties: paradigm and periphery
40
ch. 2
The Problematic of Welfare Duties
45
1.
Why welfare duties are special
45
2.
The dilemma for judicial protection
51
3.
Why the solution of not adjudicating welfare duties is unacceptable
53
3.1.
The limits of institutional democracy
54
3.2.
Democratic accountability and surrogacy
56
3.3.
Justification to each person
57
4.
Desiderata for potential solutions: Five values
58
4.1.
The rule of law
59
4.2.
Effectiveness
60
4.3.
Fairness
62
4.4.
Democracy
63
4.5.
Individual concern
64
ch. 3
The Institutional Setting
67
1.
Direct protection of welfare duties
68
1.1.
Socio-economic rights
69
1.2.
Civil and political rights
71
1.3.
Integrity rights
73
1.4.
Equality and the rights of vulnerable groups
75
1.5.
Procedural rights
76
2.
Indirect protection of welfare duties
77
3.
The international duty to provide domestic judicial protection for welfare duties
81
3.1.
Domestic remedies in the ICESCR
81
3.1.1.
Text and Context
82
3.1.2.
Object and purpose
82
3.1.3.
Evaluating the ICESCR
87
3.2.
The effect of the optional protocol
88
3.3.
General international law
90
4.
Halfway point
92
ch. 4
Reasonableness
93
1.
Analytical description
93
2.
Historical and jurisprudential background
95
2.1.
South African rationality review
96
2.2.
Reasonableness review in the case law of the South African Constitutional Court
98
3.
The Structure of reasonableness
99
3.1.
Adverbialization
99
3.2.
Criteria for assessing conduct
101
3.3.
Side constraints and their nature
102
3.4.
Incompatibility with core content approaches
104
4.
Formal assessment criteria and side constraints
105
4.1.
Minimal rationality: consistency and planning
106
4.2.
Good governance
107
4.3.
Side constraints
107
5.
Functional criteria of assessment
108
5.1.
Taking steps and progressive realization and non-retrogression
109
5.2.
Use of available resources as a functional criterion
110
5.3.
Prioritization of the vulnerable as a functional criterion
112
5.4.
Non-discrimination as a functional criterion
113
6.
Robust, substantive assessment
114
6.1.
Substantive assessment of progressiveness and non-retrogression and resource availability
114
6.2.
Prima facie unreasonableness
115
6.3.
Overall balancing
116
6.4.
Non-discrimination as a substantive criterion
117
7.
Implementation
117
7.1.
Court centric character
117
7.2.
Constrain on possible remedies
118
7.3.
Approximating reasonableness through remedies
121
ch. 5
Prioritization
123
1.
Analytical description
123
2.
Historical and jurisprudential background
124
3.
The Structure of Prioritization
127
3.1.
Identifying and defending a priority domain
128
3.2.
Rigidity of the prioritized domain
129
3.3.
The status of the non-prioritized remainder
131
4.
Identifying Priorities
133
4.1.
Core legal interests
133
4.1.1.
International human rights law
133
4.1.2.
International crimes
135
4.2.
The capabilities approach
138
4.3.
Higher minima: democracy, autonomy and dignity
140
4.4.
Rights-based, pluralistic minima
142
4.5.
A multiplicity of methods and the need to choose
143
5.
Mechanisms of implementation
144
5.1.
Statutory or Judicial
144
5.2.
Merits, access to justice and reparation orders
145
5.3.
Restriction on remedies
146
ch. 6
Dialogue
147
1.
Analytical description
147
2.
Historical and jurisprudential background
150
2.1.
Weak judicial review
150
2.2.
Pro-deliberative intervention in Argentina
152
3.
The Structure of Deliberative Democratic Dialogue
154
3.1.
Introducing deliberative democracy as a normative ideal
154
3.2.
Contrasts and contenders
158
3.3.
A dynamic of principled deference and limited action
160
4.
Indicators for principled deference
161
4.1.
Democratic credentials
162
4.2.
Deliberative credentials
164
4.2.1.
Equal opportunities for deliberation and satisfaction of prerequisites
165
4.2.2.
Absence of factual blind spots
166
5.
Judicial action for deliberation
167
5.1.
Strengthening the prerequisites for deliberation
167
5.2.
Contribution on separate competences
168
5.3.
Experimentalism and destabilization rights
169
6.
Implementing dialogue: how to limit action
170
6.1.
Remedial underenforcement
170
6.2.
Law mediated dialogue
174
6.3.
Avoidance techniques
175
6.4.
Override clauses
176
ch. 7
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
177
1.
A brief retrospective
177
2.
Establishing an ordinal ranking within categories
179
2.1.
The rule of Law
179
2.2.
Effectiveness
180
2.3.
Procedural fairness
182
2.4.
Democracy
183
2.5.
Individual concern
184
3.
Qualitative comparative reasoning
184
4.
Assessment
186
4.1.
A toolbox for states
186
4.2.
Prioritization as a default
187
Conclusions
189
Bibliography
193
Table of cases
201
Knowledge Valorization
205
Samenvatting
207
Curriculum Vitae
211