Social Constitution - Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization

This book examines the Colombian experiment with robust rights protections and traces how those rights came to be meaningful in citizens' everyday lives, allowing them to claim access to goods like healthcare. It develops a novel approach to legal mobilization that is both relational and interactive.

List of contents

1. Introduction: the social constitution; 2. Constitutional embedding through legal mobilization; 3. Expectations and transformations of Colombian constitutional law; 4. Social embedding; 5. Legal embedding; 6. Challenges to embedding: legal legibility; 7. Challenges to embedding: power struggles; 8. Challenges to embedding: workload; 9. Partial constitutional embedding: the case of South Africa; 10. Conclusion. Social constitutionalism and the politics of rights; Appendix: interviewees.

About the author

Whitney K. Taylor is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. Her research focuses on the intersection of rights, law, and contentious politics.

Summary

This book examines the Colombian experiment with robust rights protections and traces how those rights came to be meaningful in citizens' everyday lives, allowing them to claim access to goods like healthcare. It develops a novel approach to legal mobilization that is both relational and interactive.

Foreword

Shows how legal mobilization embeds constitutions in everyday life, pushing newly codified rights from words on paper to meaningful tools.

Product details

• Authors: Whitney K. Taylor, Whitney K. (San Francisco State University Taylor, Whitney K. (San Francisco State University) Taylor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2025
• EAN: 9781009367776
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0936777-6
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Colombia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, LAW / Comparative, Republic of South Africa, Comparative Politics, comparative law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law