Law and Poverty: The Legal System and Poverty Reduction - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1842773976 ISBN 13 : 9781842773970

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

This volume brings to light a variety of previously ignored ways in which law can be central to the causes and structure of poverty, and explores new legal arenas and theories that could form the basis of a transformative use of law in order to reduce poverty.

The contributions range over a wide terrain, including international human rights conventions, domestic constitutional and statutory provisions, and the law relating to social insurance and social assistance. Poverty is examined as being in certain respects legally constructed (i.e. there are ways in which specific laws create and exacerbate poverty). Also explored is the role of law in establishing specific rights or entitlements that contribute to reducing poverty, in particular social security provision and litigation as a tool for combating poverty. Finally, and most concretely, the volume examines divergent approaches to legal initiatives addressing specific aspects of poverty such as tackling child labour, reducing economic discrimination against women, and protecting the freedom of employees to organize collectively. Throughout the volume is an acute awareness of the contradictory ways in which law can impact on poverty, and on the reality of poverty as not simply a domestic issue, but a cross-border and global challenge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lucy Williams is Professor of Law at Northeastern University, Boston and has extensive experience of the trans-border dimensions of poverty in North America.

Asbjorn Kjonstad is Professor of Social Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo.

Peter Robson is Professor of Social Welfare Law at the University of Strathclyde.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1842773976
• ISBN 13: 9781842773970
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Williams Lucy, Kjønstad Asbjørn, Robson Peter
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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