There are principles of governance that should be treated as undisputed premises for the
way society is to be led in a modern, democratically organised state. The first principle is the …

The law, understood as the set of rules that organizes life in a given society
(objectivemeaning) and recognizes the prerogatives of the members of the said society or …

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 …

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 …

Poverty, despite being an obvious violation of human rights, does not seem to be a matter of
concern for those in the legal field. Considerations to be made with respect to the right to …

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 …

The violation of the right to a reasonable standard of living entails the violation of all the
other human rights, since their observance is quite simply made materially and structurally …

This thesis approaches poverty from a legal viewpoint, more specifically from the
perspective of human rights. The fact that poverty is a violation of most human rights has …

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 …

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 …