Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights

by Olivier De Schutter (Editor)

This title offers a selection of those major contributions which have shaped debate in the field of economic, social and cultural rights. The broad range of discussion the nature of economic, social and cultural rights and the ability of courts to protect them; the effectiveness of non-judicial protective mechanisms at both the universal and the domestic level; ways of measuring whether states do enough to 'progressively realize' these rights; the impact of trade and investment liberalization, and of economic globalization generally, on the fulfilment of such rights; and the role of economic, social and cultural rights in development.

1024 pages, Hardcover

Published January 29, 2014