This article charts the trajectory of the judicialization of health care from the perspective of
Global South countries. It shows how the emergence of health rights litigation in the 1990s …

The aim of this article is to test a widespread belief among Brazilian legal scholars in the
area of social rights, namely, the claim that courts are an alternative institutional voice for the …

Maternity leave in Chile has been a social right since 1919, when the International Labour
Organization set the first global standards. From its inception, Chile's labour legislation …

Since World War II, a growing number of jurisdictions in both the developing and
industrialized worlds have adopted progressive constitutions that guarantee social and …

In the fall of 2010, the Mexican Supreme Court sponsored an international conference on
human rights clinics to celebrate the launch of a new clinic at a prestigious law school in …

This forward-looking book provides an in-depth analysis of the major transformations of the
right to health in Latin America over the past decades, marked by the turn towards the …

Rights gains for members of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI)
populations in Chile have been highly contentious since democratisation, indicative of the …

Despite major developments to provide conceptual clarity to the legal enforcement of
economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights, research analysing the processes of …

Patients without access to medicines often resort to the judicial system. However, no
systematic review has discussed the quality of studies and the factors that may influence the …

El descanso por maternidad en Chile ha sido un derecho social desde 1919, concomitante
al establecimiento de los primeros estándares de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo …