The Future of Economic and Social Rights

The future of economic and social rights is unlikely to resemble its past. Neglected within the human rights movement avoided by courts and subsumed within a single-minded conception of development as economic growth economic and social rights enjoyed an uncertain status in international human rights law and in the public laws of most countries. However today under conditions of immense poverty insecurity and political instability the rights to education health care housing social security food water and sanitation are central components of the human rights agenda. The Future of Economic and Social Rights captures the significant transformations occurring in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law. Professor Katharine G. Young brings together a group of distinguished scholars from diverse disciplines to examine and advance the broad research field of economic and social rights that incorporates legal political science economic philosophy and anthropology scholars.