Research Catalog

Title

Law and poverty : perspectives from South Africa and beyond / editors, Sandra Liebenberg & Geo Quinot.

Author

Law and Poverty Colloquium (2011 : Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies)

Publication

Claremont [South Africa] : Juta, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Liebenberg, Sandra.
• Quinot, Geo.

Description

xxiii, 460 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Public welfare > Law and legislation > South Africa > Congresses
• Legal assistance to the poor > South Africa > Congresses
• Legal assistance to the poor
• Public welfare > Law and legislation
• South Africa

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "First published as (2011) 22:3 Stellenbosch Law Review."
• Papers presented at the Law and Poverty Colloquium held at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, May 29-31, 2011.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Law and Poverty Colloquium / Sandra Liebenberg, Geo Quinot -- The role of the Constitution in the struggle against poverty / Pius N. Langa -- Social exclusion, global poverty, and scales of (in)justice: rethinking law and poverty in a globalising world / Nancy Fraser -- The legal construction of poverty: gender, "work", and the "social contract" / Lucy A. Williams -- Not purpose-made! Transformative constitutionalism, post-independence constitutionalism, and the struggle to eradicate poverty / Sanele Sibanda -- De-politicising poverty: Arendt in South Africa / Emilios Christodoulidis -- Representing the poor: law, poverty, and democracy / Henk Botha -- Tranformative constitutionalism in a democratic developmental state / Solange Rosa -- The potential and limits of an equal rights paradigm in addressing poverty / Sandra Fredman -- Gendered transformation in South African jurisprudence: poor women and the Constitutional Court / Catherine Albertyn -- Judicial deference and democracy in socio-economic rights cases in South Africa / Danie Brand -- Narrowing the band: reasonableness review in administrative justice and socio-economic rights jurisprudence in South Africa / Geo Quinot, Sandra Liebenberg -- Taking poverty seriously: the South African Constitutional Court and socio-economic rights / Stuart Wilson, Jackie Dugard.
• An appraisal of international law mechanisms for litigating socio-economic rights, with a particular focus on the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the African Commission and Court / Lilian Chenwi -- Liberal constitutionalism, property rights, and the assault on poverty / Frank I. Michelman -- Farm land and tenure security: new policy and legislative developments / Juanita Pienaar, Anna Kamkuemah -- Conceptualising "meaningful engagement" as a deliberative democratic partnership / Gustav Muller -- Rental housing as adequate housing / Sue-Mari Maass -- Constitutional perspectives on unemployment security and a right to work in South Africa / Avinash Govindjee, Ockert Dupper -- Privatisation of the Commons: water as a right; water as a commodity / Khulekani Moyo -- Tensions between vernacular values that prioritise basic needs and state versions of customary law that contradict them / Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, Aninka Claassens -- Developing the common law of contract in the light of poverty and illiteracy: the challenge of the Constitution / Dennis M. Davis -- Concluding reflections: legal activism after poverty has been declared unconstitutional / Karl Klare.

ISBN

• 9780702194450
• 070219445X

LCCN

2013405032

OCLC

• ocn870248533
• 870248533
• SCSB-1864027

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library