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...

A key issue with human rights is how to allocate duties correlative to rights claims. But the philosophical literature, drawing largely on naturalistic or interactional accounts of human rights, develops answers to this question that do not illuminate actual human rights problems. Charles Beitz,...

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....