Radical Deprivation on Trial

Radical Deprivation on Trial
Author: César Rodríguez-Garavito
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107078881

Using a Colombian case study, this book assesses the potential for court rulings to enact real-life social change.

Radical Deprivation on Trial

Radical Deprivation on Trial
Author: César Rodríguez-Garavito
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316404633

This book is an empirical study of contributions by courts in the Global South to comparative constitutionalism. It offers an analytical framework for understanding these constitutional innovations and illustrates them with a qualitative study of the most ambitious case in constitutional adjudication in Latin America over the last decade: the Colombian Constitutional Court's structural injunction affecting the rights of over five million internally displaced people and its implementation process. Although the ruling (known as T25) was handed down in 2004, its monitoring process continues. This book traces the case's evolution from its origin to its effects on policy, politics and public opinion. It also compares the implementation and effects of T25 with those of other rulings on the rights to health, food, housing, and prison overcrowding in Colombia, India and South Africa. The study's insights will be of interest to scholars of comparative constitutionalism in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Litigating the Climate Emergency

Litigating the Climate Emergency
Author: César Rodríguez-Garavito
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2022-10-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1009098772

"As the climate crisis intensifies and becomes acutely visible, promising responses have been developed by scientists, advocates, and scholars around the world. Mobilizations such as #FridaysforFuture and Extinction Rebellion are converging with Indigenous peoples' movements and other social justice movements to convey the urgency and the scale needed for climate action. Reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, informed by developments in attribution science, establish more precise links between greenhouse gas emissions, extreme weather events, and human impacts. In the meantime, collaborations between scientists and journalists have drawn the broader public's attention to detailed information about the magnitude of planet-warming emissions associated with the activities of major fossil fuel companies"--

Rehabilitating Lochner

Rehabilitating Lochner
Author: David E. Bernstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2011-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226043533

In this timely reevaluation of an infamous Supreme Court decision, David E. Bernstein provides a compelling survey of the history and background of Lochner v. New York. This 1905 decision invalidated state laws limiting work hours and became the leading case contending that novel economic regulations were unconstitutional. Sure to be controversial, Rehabilitating Lochner argues that the decision was well grounded in precedent—and that modern constitutional jurisprudence owes at least as much to the limited-government ideas of Lochner proponents as to the more expansive vision of its Progressive opponents. Tracing the influence of this decision through subsequent battles over segregation laws, sex discrimination, civil liberties, and more, Rehabilitating Lochner argues not only that the court acted reasonably in Lochner, but that Lochner and like-minded cases have been widely misunderstood and unfairly maligned ever since.

Rules for Radicals

Rules for Radicals
Author: Saul Alinsky
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010-06-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0307756890

“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.

Business and Human Rights

Business and Human Rights
Author: César Rodriguez-Garavito
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107175291

Explores the conceptual and legal underpinnings of global governance approaches to business and human rights, with an emphasis on the UN Guiding Principles.

The Social Rights Jurisprudence in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

The Social Rights Jurisprudence in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Author: Isaac de Paz González
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 254
Release:
Genre: Human rights
ISBN: 1788113047

Working with progressive conceptual categories relating to indigenous property, cultural identity, the right to an adequate standard of living and healthcare, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights continues to build a justiciability to determine the social rights of marginalised individuals and groups in the Americas. In a context of interpretative tensions of the social rights as political goals and direct effects provisions, Isaac de Paz González unveils the abilities, and the practices of the Inter-American Court’s contribution to the human rights practice in the Global South.

Local Maladies, Global Remedies

Local Maladies, Global Remedies
Author: Lamprea-Montealegre, Everaldo
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2022-06-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1800376545

This forward-looking book provides an in-depth analysis of the major transformations of the right to health in Latin America over the past decades, marked by the turn towards the pharmaceuticalisation of health care. Everaldo Lamprea-Montealegre investigates how health-based litigation has deepened inequalities in the global South, exploring the practices of key actors that are reclaiming the right to health in the region.

Remedies for Human Rights Violations

Remedies for Human Rights Violations
Author: Kent Roach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2021-04-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108417876

Justifies a two-track approach that includes individual and systemic remedies in both domestic and international human rights law.