The role played by ritual in the field of human rights has not been widely remarked or analysed. Here I argue that the triumph of human rights as the predominant language for making social justice claims in the international sphere is partly attributable to the power of certain linguistic and...

In spite of vast global improvements in living standards, health, and wellbeing, the persistence of absolute poverty and its attendant maladies remains an unsettling fact of life for billions around the world and constitutes the primary cause for the failure of developing states to improve the...

In spite of vast global improvements in living standards, health, and well-being, the persistence of absolute poverty and its attendant maladies remains an unsettling fact of life for billions around the world and constitutes the primary cause for the failure of developing states to improve the...

Als Stabilitätsanker zwischen Arm und Reich nimmt die Einkommensmittelschicht in der politischen Diskussion seit jeher eine besondere Bedeutung ein. Eine einheitliche Definition dieser Gruppe gibt es aber nicht. Anhand von überwiegend bildungs- und erwerbsbezogenen Kriterien wird deshalb...

Im Bereich der häuslichen Betreuung älterer Menschen haben sich in den vergangenen Jahren verschiedene Beschäftigungsmodelle etabliert, die sich teilweise in einer rechtlichen Grauzone bewegen. Dies bietet Raum für Ausbeutung und betrifft häufig osteuropäische Frauen, die ganz überwiegend...

Optimism about the use of laws, constitutions, and rights to achieve social change has never been higher among practitioners. But the academic literature is skeptical that courts can direct resources toward the poor. This paper develops a nuanced account in which not all courts are the same....

Optimism about the use of laws, constitutions, and rights to achieve social change has never been higher among practitioners. But the academic literature is skeptical that courts can direct resources toward the poor. This paper develops a nuanced account in which not all courts are the same....