The Fight Against Poverty and the Right to Development

This book conducts a comparative legal study from two analytical points of view. First, it accounts for the legal dimensions of the fight against poverty and the right to development as seen from the perspective of domestic legal law. It examines the domestic legal tools, such as constitutional law, that aim to contribute to the fight against poverty and the right to development. Second, the book accounts for the domestic contributions to the international legal framework and examines cross-cutting themes of the contemporary state-of-play on the fight against poverty more broadly and of the right to development.

The book consists of several national and thematic reports, which look at these issues from either a national or a thematic perspective. Its first chapter is a general report, which draws on the national and thematic reports to compare, systematize and question the contemporary features at play within the field of the fight against poverty and the right to development.

Mads Andenas is a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo and has held senior academic appointments in the United Kingdom, including as Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London and Director of the Centre of European Law at King’s College, University of London. In 2012 he held the Chaire Vincent Wright at Sciences-Po, Paris.

Jeremy Perelman is Associate Professor at the Sciences Po Law School, where he also serves as the founding Director of the Sciences Po Law School Clinic. He has held visiting academic appointments at the University of Connecticut, Tel Aviv University and Columbia Law School, where he will serve as the Alliance Visiting Professor in 2020-21. He has been a Faculty member of the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy since 2012, and serves on the Editorial Committee of the European Journal of Human Rights. Jeremy Perelman’s research focuses on the intersectionbetween human rights based approaches to sustainable development, global economic governance, and social change advocacy.

Christian Scharling is Research Assistant to Professor Jeremy Perelman at the Sciences Po Law School.