All Outputs (9)

Human rights and the cost-of-living crisis (2023)
Journal Article

This column explores the intersection between human rights and the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. It opens with an overview of the crisis before turning to the current global state of affairs’ impact on human rights enjoyment. Having addressed key is... Read More about Human rights and the cost-of-living crisis.

‘Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice (2022)
Journal Article

The last three decades have seen an explosion of academic, advocacy and policy-maker interest in both the theory and the practice of children's rights. There is a growing global body of strategic litigation focused on the advancement of those rights... Read More about ‘Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice.

Human rights and economic policy reforms (2020)
Journal Article

This article focuses on the vexed relationship between human rights and economic policy reform. It opens with an exploration of the reasons for the historic and contemporary nonalignment and disconnect between these areas. It then turns to an overvie... Read More about Human rights and economic policy reforms.

Children's Economic and Social Rights and Child Poverty: The State of Play (2020)
Journal Article

The article begins by outlining the state of the existing theoretical child rights literature on ESR, before going on to consider the growing body of CRS focused on specific ESR-thematic areas. The authors make clear the historic dominance of law in... Read More about Children's Economic and Social Rights and Child Poverty: The State of Play.

Privatization and economic and social rights (2018)
Journal Article

Privatization is an ever more dominant model of economic and social rights (ESR) realization. Contracting out, public-private partnerships, and other approaches by which the private sector takes responsibility for, or supports the state in, deliverin... Read More about Privatization and economic and social rights.

'Do no harm'? Exploring the scope of economic and social rights in transitional justice (2014)
Journal Article

Increasing numbers of academics and practitioners are employing the language of economic and social rights (ESR) when conceptualizing the aims, scope and implementation mechanisms of transitional justice. Their contributions have added to an evolving... Read More about 'Do no harm'? Exploring the scope of economic and social rights in transitional justice.

Holding non-state actors to account for constitutional economic and social rights violations: experiences and lessons from South Africa and Ireland (2014)
Journal Article

The horizontal application of human rights to non-state actors (NSA) is an evolving and contested legal area both comparatively and at the international level. In light of this, the article discusses mechanisms by which NSA who violate constitutional... Read More about Holding non-state actors to account for constitutional economic and social rights violations: experiences and lessons from South Africa and Ireland.

The child as 'democratic citizen': challenging the 'participation gap' (2010)
Journal Article

Article 2(1) ICESCR and states parties' obligations: whither the budget? (2010)
Journal Article