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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Children’s Socio-Economic Rights Democracy And The Courts by Aoife Nolan
Aoife Nolans important book uses constitutional and democratic theory human rights and case law from a variety of jurisdictions to show how the courts can and should give effect to childrens socio-economic rights. Constituting a major contribution to scholarship it is the first book to examine together childrens socio-economic rights; children as democratic citizens; the implications of childrens rights for democratic constitutional theory; the role of courts in ensuring the enforcement of childrens rights and the debates surrounding the litigation and adjudication of socio-economic rights. Childrens rights were often thought to be synonymous with economic and social welfare prior to the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. Ironically since that time remarkably little scholarship has been devoted to the vitally important economic and social rights dimensions of childrens rights. Nolans book singlehandedly remedies that neglect and does so in a sophisticated nuanced and balanced way. It provides a superb account of the pros and cons of judicial activism in promoting these rights.Philip Alston John Norton Pomeroy Professor NYU Law SchoolWinner of the Kevin Boyle Book Prize 2012 for Outstanding Legal Scholarshipshow more