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The New Economic and Social Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Katharine G. Young
Katharine G. Young*
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Boston College Law School
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New Voices: Human Rights
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 107 , 2013 , pp. 486 - 488
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

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References

1 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, G.A. Res. 63/117, UN Doc. A/RES/63/117 (Dec. 10, 2008) (due to enter into force May 5, 2013) (Argentina, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mongolia, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and Uruguay).

2 I unpack this claim in detail in Katharine G. Young, Constituting Economic and Social Rights (2012).

3 Mark Tushnet, Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Compar Ative Constitutional Law (2008).

4 See, e.g., S. Afr. Const. 1996 §§ 26–29; Colom. Const., ch 2; Ghana Const., 1992, ch. 6: India Const. art. 21, Part IV; German Basic Law, art 1, 19–20.

5 For diagrams of this typology, see Young, supra note 2, esp. at 194.

6 Occupiers of 51 Olivia Road v. City of Johannesburg, 2008 (3) SA 208 (CC) (S. Air.).

7 Sabel, Charles F. & Simon, William H., Destabilization Rights: How Public Law Litigation Succeeds, 117 Harv. L. Rev. 1016 (2004)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 T-760/08 (July 31, 2008) (CC) (Colom.)

9 Young, Katharine G. & Lemaitre, Julieta, The Comparative Fortunes of the Right to Health: Two Tales of Justiciability in Colombia and South Africa, 26 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 801 (2013)Google Scholar.

10 These examples are all dealt with in greater detail in Young, supra note 2, ch 7.