Poverty and Fundamental Rights: The Justification and Enforcement of Socio-economic Rights

Poverty and Fundamental Rights: The Justification and Enforcement of Socio-economic Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-304

  Bilchitz, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Ross Kriel Attorneys ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conditional rights; Constitutional law; Food; Health care; Housing; Judicial review; Philosophy; South africa; Unconditional rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920985895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199552160.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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