Rights, scarcity, and justice : an analytical inquiry into the adjudication of the welfare aspects of human rights /

Rights, scarcity, and justice : an analytical inquiry into the adjudication of the welfare aspects of human rights /

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Author / Creator:Arosemena, Gustavo, 1982- author.
Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; Antwerp [Belgium] ; Portland [Oregon] : Intersentia, [2014]
©2014
Description:xi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:School of Human Rights research series ; volume 65
School of Human Rights Research series ; v. 65.
Subject:
Human rights.
Social rights.
Scarcity.
Social justice.
Judicial power.
Public welfare.
Human rights.
Judicial power.
Public welfare.
Scarcity.
Social justice.
Social rights.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10127895
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ISBN:9781780682754
1780682751
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200).
Summary also in Dutch.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Methodological Preliminaries
  • Chapter 1. From ESC Rights to Welfare Duties
  • 1. The orthodoxy: Historical foundations and main arguments
  • 1.1. Political opposition to a unified treatment of CP and ESC rights
  • 1.2. Academic opposition to a unified treatment of CP and ESC rights
  • 2. The results: a strong dichotomy between CP rights and ESC rights and its connection to justiciability
  • 3. The division between CP rights and ESC rights as a false dichotomy
  • 4. Alternative dichotomies and trichotomies
  • 5. Dismantling the categories
  • 6. Assessing the objections
  • 6.1. Levels of cost
  • 6.2. Purpose
  • 7. Constructing welfare duties: paradigm and periphery
  • Chapter 2. The Problematic of Welfare Duties
  • 1. Why welfare duties are special
  • 2. The dilemma for judicial protection
  • 3. Why the solution of not adjudicating welfare duties is unacceptable
  • 3.1. The limits of institutional democracy
  • 3.2. Democratic accountability and surrogacy
  • 3.3. Justification to each person
  • 4. Desiderata for potential solutions: Five values
  • 4.1. The rule of law
  • 4.2. Effectiveness
  • 4.3. Fairness
  • 4.4. Democracy
  • 4.5. Individual concern
  • Chapter 3. The Institutional Setting
  • 1. Direct protection of welfare duties
  • 1.1. Socio-economic rights
  • 1.2. Civil and political rights
  • 1.3. Integrity rights
  • 1.4. Equality and the rights of vulnerable groups
  • 1.5. Procedural rights
  • 2. Indirect protection of welfare duties
  • 3. The international duty to provide domestic judicial protection for welfare duties
  • 3.1. Domestic remedies in the ICESCR
  • 3.1.1. Text and Context
  • 3.1.2. Object and purpose
  • 3.1.3. Evaluating the ICESCR
  • 3.2. The effect of the optional protocol
  • 3.3. General international law
  • 4. Halfway point
  • Chapter 4. Reasonableness
  • 1. Analytical description
  • 2. Historical and jurisprudential background
  • 2.1. South African rationality review
  • 2.2. Reasonableness review in the case law of the South African Constitutional Court
  • 3. The Structure of reasonableness
  • 3.1. Adverbialization
  • 3.2. Criteria for assessing conduct
  • 3.3. Side constraints and their nature
  • 3.4. Incompatibility with cove content approaches
  • 4. Formal assessment criteria and side constraints
  • 4.1. Minimal rationality: consistency and planning
  • 4.2. Good governance
  • 4.3. Side constraints
  • 5. Functional criteria of assessment
  • 5.1. Taking steps and progressive realization and n on-retrogression
  • 5.2. Use of available resources as a functional criterion
  • 5.3. Prioritization of the vulnerable as a functional criterion
  • 5.4. Non-discrimination as a functional criterion
  • 6. Robust, substantive assessment
  • 6.1. Substantive assessment of progressiveness and non-retrogression and resource availability
  • 6.2. Prima facie unreasonableness
  • 6.3. Overall balancing
  • 6.4. Non-discrimination as a substantive criterion
  • 7. Implementation
  • 7.1. Court centric character
  • 7.2. Constrain on possible remedies
  • 7.3. Approximating reasonableness through remedies
  • Chapter 5. Prioritization
  • 1. Analytical description
  • 2. Historical and jurisprudential background
  • 3. The Structure of Prioritization
  • 3.1. Identifying and defending a priority domain
  • 3.2. Rigidity of the prioritized domain
  • 3.3. The status of the non-prioritized remainder
  • 4. Identifying Priorities
  • 4.1. Core legal interests
  • 4.1.1. International human rights law
  • 4.1.2. International crimes
  • 4.2. The capabilities approach
  • 4.3. Higher minima: democracy, autonomy and dignity
  • 4.4. Rights-based, pluralistic minima
  • 4.5. A multiplicity of methods and the need to choose
  • 5. Mechanisms of implementation
  • 5.1. Statutory or Judicial
  • 5.2. Merits, access to justice and reparation orders
  • 5.3. Restriction on remedies
  • Chapter 6. Dialogue
  • 1. Analytical description
  • 2. Historical and jurisprudential background
  • 2.1. Weak judicial review
  • 2.2. Pro-deliberative intervention in Argentina
  • 3. The Structure of Deliberative Democratic Dialogue
  • 3.1. Introducing deliberative democracy as a normative ideal
  • 3.2. Contrasts and contenders
  • 3.3. A dynamic of principled deference and limited action
  • 4. Indicators for principled deference
  • 4.1. Democratic credentials
  • 4.2. Deliberative credentials
  • 4.2.1. Equal opportunities for deliberation and satisfaction of prerequisites
  • 4.2.2. Absence of factual blind spots
  • 5. Judicial action for deliberation
  • 5.1. Strengthening the prerequisites for deliberation
  • 5.2. Contribution on separate competences
  • 5.3. Experimentalism and destabilization rights
  • 6. Implementing dialogue: how to limit action
  • 6.1. Remedial underenforcement
  • 6.2. Law mediated dialogue
  • 6.3. Avoidance techniques
  • 6.4. Override clauses
  • Chapter 7. Qualitative Comparative Analysis
  • 1. A brief retrospective
  • 2. Establishing an ordinal ranking within categories
  • 2.1. The rule of Law
  • 2.2. Effectiveness
  • 2.3. Procedural fairness
  • 2.4. Democracy
  • 2.5. Individual concern
  • 3. Qualitative comparative reasoning
  • 4. Assessment
  • 4.1. A toolbox for states
  • 4.2. Prioritization as a default
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Table of cases
  • Knowledge Valorization
  • Samenvatting
  • Curriculum Vitae

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