Socio-Economic Rights Adjudication Under a Transformative Constitution [Paperback]

Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary resources, this scholarly work provides an in-depth and thorough analysis of the socio-economic rights jurisprudence of the newly democratic South Africa. The book explores how the judicial interpretation and enforcement of socio-economic rights can be more responsive to the conditions of systemic poverty and inequality characterising South African society. Based on meticulous research, the work marries legal analysis with perspectives from political philosophy and democratic theory.

A comprehensive examination of South Africa’s transformative constitutionalism.   —Karl Klare, George J. Waters, Kathleen Waters Matthews, and Lucy Williams, professors, school of law, Northeastern University (Boston)

Sure to play a leading role not only in the burgeoning field of academic endeavour on this topic internationally, but also as reference work of real usefulness for practitioners engaged in using law to combat impoverishment and social exclusion.   —Danie Brand, senior lecturer, department of public law, University of Pretoria

Sandra Liebenbergholds the HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. She has prepared arguments and amicus curiae submissions for several socio-economic rights cases.