The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa: International, Regional and National Perspectives - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107173655 ISBN 13: 9781107173651

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa critiques the three main models of constitutionally protecting economic, social and cultural rights in Africa - direct, indirect and hybrid models. It examines the choices that states have made, how the models have worked, whether they have been tested in litigation and the jurisprudence that has arisen. The book analyses the protection of the economic, social and cultural rights in a range of African countries: Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Leading legal academics explore how these rights feature at the regional and sub-regional levels, as well as the link between domestic and international mechanisms of enforcement.

About this title

Book Description

This book investigates and analyses models of protecting economic, social and cultural rights in Africa, examining domestic, sub-regional and regional arrangements and the jurisprudence that these models have generated since the 1990s. The chapters are written by leading legal academics with a wealth of experience within Africa's legal systems.

About the Author

Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa is Professor of Law and former Head of the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town. He has authored a number of books on law and is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Malawi Law Journal. He has published, taught and supervised postgraduate students on economic, social and cultural rights.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107173655
• ISBN 13: 9781107173651
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Chirwa Danwood Mzikenge, Chenwi Lilian