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Selected Treatises - International Law and Social Justice

Global Health Disputes and Disparities by Dru Bhattacharya
Call Number: Full-text online via WRLC catalog
ISBN: 9780415673808
Publication Date: 2012-11-13
Global Health Disputes and Disparities explores inequalities in health around the world, looking particularly at the opportunity for, and limitations of, international law to promote population health by examining its intersection with human rights, trade, and epidemiology, and the controversial issues of legal process, religion, access to care, and the social context of illness.
Human Rights Transformation in Practice by Tine Destrooper (Editor); Sally Engle Merry (Editor)
Call Number: 3rd floor stacks (K3240 .H863 2018)
ISBN: 9780812250572
Publication Date: 2018-11-09
Human rights are increasingly described as being in crisis. But are human rights really on the verge of disappearing? The author argues that the ideals of justice, fairness, and equality inherent in human rights remain appealing globally--and that recognizing the continuing importance and strength of human rights requires looking for them in unexpected places.
Rights-Based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa by Marius Pieterse
Call Number: 3rd floor stacks (KTL2465 .P54 2017)
ISBN: 1138059285
Publication Date: 2017-09-07
This title considers the overlap between legal and everyday struggles for social and spatial justice in Johannesburg, South Africa. Drawing from multiple disciplines, as well as from reported case-law concerning constitutional rights in Johannesburg and other South African cities, the book examines whether the invocation of legal rights before South African courts have contributed to the advancement of social justice in the city.
Subversive Property by Sarah Keenan
Call Number: 3rd floor stacks (K487 .G45 K44 2015)
ISBN: 1138013986
Publication Date: 2014-10-08
This book explores the relationship between space, subjectivity, and property in order to invert conventional socio-legal understandings of property. The author argues that new political possibilities for property may be revealed by thinking about property in terms of space and belonging, rather than exclusion.