This barnstormer of a book is both rigorous and a page-turner, both provocative and careful,
both deconstructive and constructive. Stephen Hopgood challenges all fans of human rights …

Human dignity is now a central feature of many modern constitutions and international
documents. As a constitutional value, human dignity involves a person's free will, autonomy …

As constitutional law globalizes, the quest for a common grammar or'generic constitutional
law'becomes more pressing. Proportionality is one of the most prominent and controversial …

While water has been the subject of bilateral and multilateral agreements for millennia, it has
only been considered through the lens of human rights much more recently. The human …

The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet
how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and …

Litigating health rights: framing the analysis, Siri Gloppen--Argentina: courts and the right to
health: achieving fairness despite" routinization" in individual coverage cases, Paola …

The Sovereignty of Human Rights advances a legal theory of international human rights that
defines their nature and purpose in relation to the structure and operation of international …

Spatial injustice and urban residential segregation represent significant dimensions in the
historical development of the settlement patterns of South Africa's urban poor, which have …

This article considers anew the utility of rights-discourse in alleviating social hardship. It
revisits the Critical Legal Studies-inspired debates on the topic, but in the context of …

The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (the Charter) was adopted by the
Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Assembly on 11 July 1990 and entered into force on 29 …