Book Review: Socio-Economic Rights: Adjudication Under a Transformative Constitution (original) (raw)

2000, SSRN Electronic Journal

Every so often time and place and effort converge to bring about something transformative in law's promise to justice. And every so often, a discrete book stands in to document, theorize, contextualize and even help to create this shift. If South Africa's entrenchment of justiciable economic and social rights represents such a legal transformation, Sandra Liebenberg's SocioEconomic Rights: Adjudication under a Transformative Constitution has all the makings of such a book. Of course, South Africa's post-apartheid Constitution of 1996 has produced a rich literature across many fields of law, 1 but this book is distinct in the way that it focuses on the constitutional ambition to realize economic and social rights against a backdrop of endemic poverty and inequality, a theme that is used to orient the broader legal changes that are now authorized and mandated under these provisions.

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