Social Rights and the Constitutional Moment: Learning from Chile and International Experiences (Human Rights Law in Perspective) - Hardcover

Koldo Casla; Magdalena Sepúlveda; Vicente Silva; Valentina Contreras

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 150995189X ISBN 13: 9781509951895

Publisher: Hart Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Chile’s constitutional moment began as a popular demand in late 2019. This collection seizes the opportunity of this unique moment to unpack the context, difficulties, opportunities, and merits to enhance the status of environmental and social rights (health, housing, education and social security) in a country’s constitution.

Learning from Chilean and international experiences from the Global South and North, and drawing on the analysis of both academics and practitioners, the book provides rigorous answers to the fundamental questions raised by the construction of a new constitutional bill of rights that embraces climate and social justice. With an international and comparative perspective, chapters look at issues such as political economy, the judicial enforceability of social rights, implications of the privatisation of public services, and the importance of active participation of most vulnerable groups in a constitutional drafting process.

Ahead of the referendum on a new constitution for Chile in the second half of 2022, this collection is timely and relevant and will have direct impact on how best to legislate effectively for social rights in Chile and beyond.

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About the Authors

Koldo Casla is a Lecturer in Law and the Director of the Human Rights Centre Clinic of the University of Essex, UK. Between 2013 and 2019, he worked as a researcher on social rights in Spain and the UK. Between 2011 and 2013, he was the Chief of Staff of Ararteko, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Parliament of the Basque Country, Spain. Casla holds a PhD in European and International Studies from King’s College London, and is the author of Politics of International Human Rights Law Promotion in Western Europe: Order Versus Justice (Routledge, 2019).

Magdalena Sepúlveda is the Executive Director of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Mexico.

Vicente Silva is a member of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Chile.

Valentina Contreras is a member of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Chile.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 150995189X
• ISBN 13: 9781509951895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Koldo Casla, Magdalena Sepúlveda, Vicente Silva, Valentina Contreras