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The
Role of Judges in Implementing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Edited by Yash Ghai & Jill Cottrell
Published by INTERIGHTS
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. |
