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The ‘Homeless Families with Children’ litigation: a case study of court enforcement of socio-economic rights
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In the United States, courts have played a key role in defining socio-economic rights and in enforcing the government's obligations to provide and protect those rights.
Such long-term judicial oversight has provoked political debate over the proper role of the courts versus the executive branch. That debate has five key aspects: (1) declaring the right at issue, including the source of that right; (2) defining the scope of the right; (3) enforcing the right; (4) the (alleged) downsi...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
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University of Oxford
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- 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
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- English
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- ora:7761
- Deposit date:
- 2014-02-03
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- Copyright holder:
- The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- Policy brief.
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