Socio-Economic Rights - Adjudication Under a Transformative Constitution - Paperback

by Sandra Liebenberg (Author), Sandy Liebenberg (Author)

This book features a comprehensive analysis of the socio-economic rights jurisprudence of the newly democratic South Africa, including relevant international and comparative law. It deals with key concepts in socio-economic rights such as separation of powers and reasonableness review, with perspectives from political philosophy and democratic theory as well as the role of socio-economic rights in private law and appropriate remedies for socio-economic rights violations. Further, it proposes how the judicial interpretation and enforcement of socio-economic rights can be developed to be more responsive to the conditions of systemic poverty and inequality characterising South African society.

Author Biography

Sandra Liebenberg holds the HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. She has prepared arguments and amicus curiae submissions for several socio-economic rights cases.