Constitutionalism of the Global South (eBook, ePUB)

The Activist Tribunals of India, South Africa, and Colombia
Redaktion: Maldonado, Daniel Bonilla

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Indian Supreme Court, the South African Constitutional Court and the Colombian Constitutional Court have been among the most important and creative courts in the Global South. In Asia, Africa and Latin America, they are seen as activist tribunals that have contributed (or attempted to contribute) to the structural transformation of the public and private spheres of their countries. The cases issued by these courts are creating a constitutionalism of the Global South. This book addresses in a direct and detailed way the jurisprudence of these Courts on three key topics: access to justice, cultural diversity and socioeconomic rights. This volume is a valuable contribution to the discussion about the contours and structure of contemporary constitutionalism. It makes explicit that this discussion has interlocutors both in the Global South and Global North while showing the common discourse between them and the differences on how they interpret and solve key constitutional problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107065802
• Artikelnr.: 53014525

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction; Part II. Socio-economic Rights: 1. Constitutions and
distributive justice: complementary or contradictory? David Bilchitz; 2.
The embedded negotiators: India's higher judiciary and socioeconomic rights
Shylashri Shankar; 3. Economic and social rights, prisons, and the
Colombian constitutional court Libardo Ariza; Part III. Cultural Diversity:
4. Cultural diversity, 'living law', and power: progress and contradictions
Cathi Albertyn; 5. Keeping the faith: legitimizing democracy through
judicial practices Gurpreet Mahajan; 6. Self-government and cultural
identity: the Colombian constitutional court and the right to prior
consultation Daniel Bonilla; Part IV. Access to Justice: 7. Courts and
structural poverty in South Africa: has the constitutional court expanded
access and remedies to the poor? Jackie Dugard; 8. Access to justice in
India: the jurisprudence (and self-perception) of the Supreme Court Menaka
Guruswamy and Bipin Aspatwar; 9. Access to constitutional justice in
Colombia: opportunities and challenges for social and political change
Manuel Iturralde.