Law and poverty
Subtitle: perspectives from South Africa and beyond
By: editors, Sandra Liebenberg & Geo Quinot
Contributors: Liebenberg, Sandra; Quinot, Geo
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Juta
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Claremont [South Africa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780702194450
Subjects: Law and legislation; Congresses; Public welfare; Legal assistance to the poor
Notes: "First published as (2011) 22:3 Stellenbosch Law Review."

Papers presented at the Law and Poverty Colloquium held at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, May 29-31, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Law and Poverty Colloquium  -- Sandra Liebenberg, -- Geo Quinot; title: The role of the Constitution in the struggle against poverty  -- Pius N. Langa; title: Social exclusion, global poverty, and scales of (in)justice: rethinking law and poverty in a globalising world  -- Nancy Fraser; title: The legal construction of poverty: gender, "work", and the "social contract"  -- Lucy A. Williams; title: Not purpose-made! Transformative constitutionalism, post-independence constitutionalism, and the struggle to eradicate poverty  -- Sanele Sibanda; title: De-politicising poverty: Arendt in South Africa  -- Emilios Christodoulidis; title: Representing the poor: law, poverty, and democracy  -- Henk Botha; title: Tranformative constitutionalism in a democratic developmental state  -- Solange Rosa; title: The potential and limits of an equal rights paradigm in addressing poverty  -- Sandra Fredman; title: Gendered transformation in South African jurisprudence: poor women and the Constitutional Court  -- Catherine Albertyn; title: Judicial deference and democracy in socio-economic rights cases in South Africa  -- Danie Brand; title: Narrowing the band: reasonableness review in administrative justice and socio-economic rights jurisprudence in South Africa  -- Geo Quinot, -- Sandra Liebenberg; title: Taking poverty seriously: the South African Constitutional Court and socio-economic rights -- Stuart Wilson,-- Jackie Dugard.; title: An appraisal of international law mechanisms for litigating socio-economic rights, with a particular focus on the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the African Commission and Court  -- Lilian Chenwi; title: Liberal constitutionalism, property rights, and the assault on poverty  -- Frank I. Michelman; title: Farm land and tenure security: new policy and legislative developments  -- Juanita Pienaar, -- Anna Kamkuemah; title: Conceptualising "meaningful engagement" as a deliberative democratic partnership  -- Gustav Muller; title: Rental housing as adequate housing  -- Sue-Mari Maass; title: Constitutional perspectives on unemployment security and a right to work in South Africa  -- Avinash Govindjee, -- Ockert Dupper; title: Privatisation of the Commons: water as a right; water as a commodity  -- Khulekani Moyo; title: Tensions between vernacular values that prioritise basic needs and state versions of customary law that contradict them  -- Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, -- Aninka Claassens; title: Developing the common law of contract in the light of poverty and illiteracy: the challenge of the Constitution  -- Dennis M. Davis; title: Concluding reflections: legal activism after poverty has been declared unconstitutional -- Karl Klare.