Social Rights Taken Seriously: Towards a Dialogue Between Rights and Public Policy
César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes | August 1, 2008
The book investigates the application of various social rights with an emphasis on the right to education.
Offering an interdisciplinary analysis on the conceptual relations between the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (DESC) and public policies, the authors maintain that the protection of rights does not have to be incumbent only on the judges. The authors contribute to bridging the normative nature of rights and the technical and economic nature of public policies. The book investigates the application of various social rights with an emphasis on the right to education.
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