Daphne Barak-Erez teaches constitutional and administrative law at the Faculty of Law of Tel-Aviv University and acts as the Chair of the Israeli Society of Public Law. Aeyal Gross teaches constitutional and international law at the Faculty of Law of Tel-Aviv University and acts as a board member of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
1 Introduction: Do We Need Social Rights? Questions in the Era of
Globalisation, Privatisation, and the Diminished Welfare State
DAPHNE BARAK-EREZ AND AEYAL M GROSS
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on Social Rights
2 The Constitution, Social Rights and Liberal Political Justification
FRANK I MICHELMAN
3 Failed Decolonisation and the Future of Social Rights: Some Preliminary
Reflections
UPENDRA BAXI
4 'If you don't pay, you die': On Death and Desire in the Postcolony
LUCIE WHITE
Part II: Global and Regional Perspectives on Social Rights
5 Stuck in a Moment in Time: The International Justiciability of Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights
YUVAL SHANY
6 Social Rights and Social Policy: Transformations on the International
Landscape
KERRY RITTICH
7 Indirect Protection of Social Rights by the European Court of Human
Rights
EVA BREMS
Part III: National Perspectives on Social Rights
8 Social Rights Litigation in India: Developments of the Last Decade
JAYNA KOTHARI
9 Socio-Economic Rights: The Promise and Limitation-The South African
Experience
DENNIS M DAVIS
10 Social Rights in Canada
PATRICK MACKLEM
11 Social Citizenship: The Neglected Aspect of Israeli Constitutional Law
DAPHNE BARAK-EREZ AND AEYAL M GROSS
Part IV: Implementing Specific Social Rights
12 The Many Faces of the Right to Education
YORAM RABIN
13 The Right to Health in an Era of Privatisation and Globalisation:
National and International Perspectives
AEYAL M GROSS
14 The Right to Work-The Value of Work
GUY MUNDLAK
Part V: Social Rights of Special Groups
15 The Social Rights of People with Disabilities: Reconciling Care and
Justice
NETA ZIV
16 Social Rights as Women's Rights
DAPHNE BARAK-EREZ
