A social contract for the twenty-first century: socio-economic rights and wealthier democracies

Working paper

With the reluctance by many in the Anglo-American world to countenance an incorporation of socio-economic rights into justiciable Bills of Rights, this policy brief explores the potential of the social contract as a complementary approach to the positivist arguments of international human rights law. Social contract theory has evolved in the twenty-first century into a progressive theory that encompasses socio-economic rights.

Authors: Van Bueren, G

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
• 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: 2009-01-01
• Edition: Publisher's version
• Language: English
• Keywords: democracy; law; society; justice
• Subjects: Socio-legal studies