This book features a comprehensive analysis of the socio-economic rights jurisprudence of the newly democratic South Africa, including relevant international and comparative law. It deals with key concepts in socio-economic rights such as separation of powers and reasonableness review, with perspectives from political philosophy and democratic theory as well as the role of socio-economic rights in private law and appropriate remedies for socio-economic rights violations. Further, it proposes how the judicial interpretation and enforcement of socio-economic rights can be developed to be more responsive to the conditions of systemic poverty and inequality characterising South African society.

• Foreword by Karl Klare and Lucy Williams
• Preface
• The struggle for recognition: Including socio-economic rights in the Constitution – an historical overview
• A transformative jurisprudence on socio-economic rights
• Socio-economic rights in the context of the Bill of Rights
• Reconceiving reasonableness review: Sections 26 and 27
• Children, education, persons deprived of  liberty: Sections 28(1) (c), 29 and 35(2)(e)
• A new paradigm for evictions law: Section 26(3)
• Socio-economic rights in private law
• Responsive remedies
• Postscript
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Chapter 2 of the 1996 Constitution
• Bibliography
• Table of Cases
• Table of Legislation
• Subject Index