Roberto Gargarella, Octavio Ferraz, Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Jayna Kothari, Anneken Sperr and Henriette Sinding Larsen compare and discuss research from Latin-America, India, Norway and Germany.

Program 

11.00 Welcome with coffee and tea

11.15 Short introduction, Henriette Sinding Aasen

11.30 Constitutionalism and social rights in the republican tradition of legal reform, Roberto Gargarella

12.10 Harming the Poor through Social Rights Litigation, Octavio Ferraz

12.50 Lunch

13.30 The Responsive Court? Social Rights and Nepal, Malcolm Langford

14.10 Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles in India, Sudhir Krishnaswamy

14.50 Social rights and the Indian supreme court - perspectives on the right to education, Jayna Kothari

15.30 Constitutionalism and social rights in Germany, Anneken Sperr

15.40 Constitutionalism and social rights in Norway, Henriette Sinding Aasen

15.50 Final discussion and comparative observations

16.30 End of seminar

 

Publications

Edited Book | 2011

Litigating health rights. Can courts bring more justice to health?

The last fifteen years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of health rights cases focusing on issues such as access to health services and essential medications. This volume...
Alicia Ely Yamin and Siri Gloppen, eds. (2011)
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press (Human Rights Program Series. Harvard Law School) 435 p.
Book Chapter | 2011

Dialogic justice in the enforcement of social rights: Some initial arguments

Roberto Gargarella (2011)
in Alicia Ely Yamin and Siri Gloppen, eds.: Litigating health rights. Can courts bring more justice to health?. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press pp. 232-245

Projects

Litigating the Right to Health

Jan 2008 - Jan 2012