Judging Social Rights

Informationen zum Autor Jeff King is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, where he teaches public law, human rights and legal theory. Klappentext Jeff King argues in favour of constitutionalising social rights, and presents an incrementalist approach to judicial enforcement. Zusammenfassung Written with lawyers! social scientists! political theorists! and human rights advocates in mind! Judging Social Rights makes a normative and empirically grounded case for constitutional social rights. It presents an incrementalist theory of adjudication that gives prominence to the democratic role and institutional capacity of the judiciary. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Aims and methods; Part I. The Case for Constitutional Social Rights: 2. The case for social rights; 3. The value of courts in light of the alternatives; 4. A basic interpretive approach; Part II. A Theory of Judicial Restraint: 5. Institutional approaches to judicial restraint; 6. Democratic legitimacy; 7. Polycentricity; 8. Expertise; 9. Flexibility; Part III. Incrementalism: 10. Incrementalism as a general theme.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff King, Jeff (University College London) King, Jeff A. King
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2012
• EAN: 9781107008021
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00802-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law; Cambridge Studies in Constitut
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law