Constitutional socio-economic rights: lessons from Central Europe

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Whether socio-economic rights should be entrenched in constitutions has been a subject of lively debate. On the one hand, it has been argued that such an entrenchment is necessary in order to recognize the worth and standing of those rights and in order to give individual claimants sufficient remedies in cases of a breach of a right. On the other hand, it has been argued that it is unnecessary (because statutory recognition is sufficient) and even harmful because it invites judges to enter...

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Authors: Sadurski, W

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Publisher's website
• Series: Courts and the making of public policy AND The social contract revisited
• Place of publication: http://www.fljs.org/content/courts-and-making-public-policy-publications-0
• Publication date: 2008-01-01
• Language: English
• Keywords: Right to labor; Social rights; Central Europe
• Subjects: European Law; Socio-legal studies; Constitutional & administrative law; Comparative Law; Human rights