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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Practice is a fascinating exchange that will contribute to the widening debate on this pivotal area of human rights law. The book features essays written by leading experts from five major international legal systems debating the issue based on experiences within their respective countries - Canada, India, South Africa, UK and Hungary - with a view to drawing conclusions about how the judiciary can better implement ESCR. The contributions provide insights into the methods, specificity and limits of judicial enforcement. They explore the interdependence of civil and political rights and ESCR, and the permeation of the latter into interpretations of the former.
The book includes a comprehensive list of relevant international decisions on ESCR and a full bibliography of publications discussing ESCR. It is an invaluable tool for human rights lawyers, judges and other advocates keen to take part in the debate on how this all-important body of rights should be implemented.
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Practice is available in English from INTERIGHTS at a retail price of UK�20 / US$38. Please contact Erica Ffrench at: effrench@interights.org to order your copies.
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Contents include:
To Affirm the Full Human Rights Standing of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -
Abdullahi A. An-Na-im
The Effective Protection of Socio-Economic Rights - Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC & Colm O'Cinneide
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: An Indian Response to the Justiciability Debate -
Dr S. Muralidhar
Justiciability of Socio-Economic Rights: Some South African Experiences - Geoff Budlender
A Canadian Perspective on Economic and Social Rights - The Honourable Claire L'Heureux-Dube
Implementing Welfare in Eastern Europe after Communism - Andras Sajo
The Role of the Courts in the Protection of Economic, Social & Cultural Rights - Jill Cottrell
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Author biographies
Yash Ghai has held the Sir Y K Pao Chair in Public Law at the University of Hong Kong since 1989. Before that he was on the staff of the Universities of Warwick (UK), Uppsala (Sweden) and the then University of East Africa (Tanzania), and has taught as a visiting professor at universities in many countries. He is particularly interested in constitutional law, including human rights, ethnic conflicts, and autonomy.
Among his books are Hong Kong's New Constitutional Order: The Resumption of Chinese Sovereignty and the Basic Law (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1997) (second edition, 1998) and Autonomy and Ethnicity: Negotiating Competing Claims in Multi-Ethnic States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) which he edited and in which he alone or jointly authored three chapters. He has advised many governments, international bodies and organisations on constitutional issues, most recently in Afghanistan and Kenya (where he chaired the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission and the Kenya National Constitutional Conference).
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Jill Cottrell has been teaching since 1965: at two universities in Nigeria - what is now Obafemi Awolowo University - and Ahmadu Bello University - the University of Warwick and since 1990 the University of Hong Kong. She retired in 2003 but is still teaching part time - her principal teaching responsibility being a course on economic, social and cultural rights in the Hong Kong LLM in human rights. She has written on rights to environment, and on public interest litigation in India, while her main areas of civil and political rights interest have been freedom of expression, especially defamation, and the death penalty.
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