This paper assesses the benefits, risks, and limitations of human rights based approaches to development, which can be catalogued on the basis of the institutional mechanisms they rely on: global compliance based on international and regional treaties; the policies and programming of donors and...

Social and economic and rights are incorporated into many national constitutions, and courts in many countries are effectively and legitimately enforcing them. However, the large majority of rights rulings addresses the cost of goods and services and focuses exclusively on access. There is now...

The elements of legalization, and the triangular shape of social and economic rights / by Varun Gauri and Daniel M. Brinks -- Litigating for social justice in post-apartheid South Africa : a focus on health and education / by Jonathan Berger -- Accountability for social and economic rights in...