This article adopts an analysis that explicitly politicises poverty and relates it to the concrete
history of racialised capitalism and structural inequality that defined colonialism and …

This collection of essays focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of
poverty. They illustrate the distinct dimensions of poverty in a range of different political and …

Poverty has been a central subject of economics, sociology, and other social sciences for a
long time. But it has not been a frequent concern of lawyers until quite recently. The …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to consider what role the right to equality can and should play in
relation to poverty. Unlike socio-economic rights, which are still fighting for full recognition …

It is a great honour to be asked to speak at this colloquium on Law and Poverty. I understand
the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (the" Constitution") as urging us to …

With a constellation of high profile global thinkers and leaders, the Commission on Legal
Empowerment of the Poor promised to reposition law and justice concerns at the centre of …

In this article I aim to identify the nature of poverty discrimination, its judicial treatment and
possible redressal within the discourse of discrimination law. The article delineates a key …

The title and thus broad framing of this article is" poverty as injustice". The implicit other side
of the claim" poverty as injustice" is that justice would mean the absence of poverty. Our …

Many different indicators are used to monitor poverty and poverty-related deprivations. Two
kinds of legitimacy worries may arise about any such indicator: one regarding its reliability …