Lucy (Hrsg.) Williams

Law and Poverty: The Legal System and Poverty Reduction

Buch

This book exposes previously ignored ways in which the law is central to the causes and structure of poverty, and explores new possibilities for using the law to alleviate poverty. It covers international human rights conventions, constitutional and statutory provisions, social insurance and social assistance law, and ranges over a wide terrain. Law is examined at its most general, as legally constructed--looking at the ways in which specific laws can either exacerbate poverty or enshrine a human right not to be poor--and in establishing specific rights entitlements that bear on reducing poverty. Finally, and most concretely, it examines the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Franzoni, Juliana Martínez (Hrsg.) / Kjønstad, Asbjørn (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84277-396-3
EAN: 9781842773963
Produktnummer: 1806621
Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H22.1 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.3 cm 499 g
Gewicht: 499

Über den Autor

Lucy Williams is a US lawyer with extensive experience of the trans-border dimensions of poverty in North America. Asbjorn Kjonstad is professor of social law at the University of Oslo since 1985. He has published extensively on social security law, medical law, tort law and monetary law. Peter Robson is in the Law School, University of Strathclyde. All the CONTRIBUTORS are lawyers concerned in some way with poverty.