Courting social justice
Subtitle: judicial enforcement of social and economic rights in the developing world
By: edited by Varun Gauri, Daniel M. Brinks.
Contributors: Gauri, Varun, 1966-; Brinks, Daniel M., 1961-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780521873765
Subjects: Human rights -- Developing countries; Social rights -- Developing countries; Law and economic development; Social legislation -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Economic policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The elements of legalization, and the triangular shape of social and economic rights / by Varun Gauri and Daniel M. Brinks; title: Litigating for social justice in post-apartheid South Africa : a focus on health and education / by Jonathan Berger; title: Accountability for social and economic rights in Brazil / by Florian F. Hoffmann & Fernando R.N.M. Bentes; title: Courts and socio-economic rights in India / by Shylashri Shankar and Pratap Bhanu Mehta; title: The impact of economic and social rights in Nigeria : an assessment of the legal framework for implementing education and health as human rights / by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu; title: The implementation of the rights to health care and education in Indonesia / Bivitri Susanti; title: A new policy landscape : legalizing social and economic rights in the developing world / by Daniel M. Brinks and Varun Gauri; title: Transforming legal theory in the light of practice: the judicial application of social and economic rights to private orderings / By Helen Hershkoff.