Christopher McCrudden is Professor of Human Rights Law and Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford

Buying Social Justice is authoritative, well-written, well-argued and a major contribution to the literature on regulation, equality and human rights. It focuses much needed attention on a key area of government activity, whose potential use as an instrument of social policy has been chronically disregarded in the United Kingdom since the Thatcherite reforms of the 1980s. It also makes a powerful case for the potential for procurement linkages to be used to advance social justice, while also making the wider claim that economic tools such as procurement can be used as instruments of social change without risking the commodification of equality as a value...It will inevitably become a major point of reference in this field throughout Europe and North America: no other text on this topic comes close to matching the range and authority of this book.

• PART I: PRELIMINARIES ; PART II: THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION AND PROCUREMENT LINKAGES ; PART III: EQUALITY LINKAGES AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ; PART IV: INTERPRETATION ; PART V: CONCLUSIONS

Christopher McCrudden is Professor of Human Rights Law and Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford

Buying Social Justice is authoritative, well-written, well-argued and a major contribution to the literature on regulation, equality and human rights. It focuses much needed attention on a key area of government activity, whose potential use as an instrument of social policy has been chronically disregarded in the United Kingdom since the Thatcherite reforms of the 1980s. It also makes a powerful case for the potential for procurement linkages to be used to advance social justice, while also making the wider claim that economic tools such as procurement can be used as instruments of social change without risking the commodification of equality as a value...It will inevitably become a major point of reference in this field throughout Europe and North America: no other text on this topic comes close to matching the range and authority of this book.

• PART I: PRELIMINARIES ; PART II: THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION AND PROCUREMENT LINKAGES ; PART III: EQUALITY LINKAGES AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ; PART IV: INTERPRETATION ; PART V: CONCLUSIONS

Christopher McCrudden is Professor of Human Rights Law and Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford

Buying Social Justice is authoritative, well-written, well-argued and a major contribution to the literature on regulation, equality and human rights. It focuses much needed attention on a key area of government activity, whose potential use as an instrument of social policy has been chronically disregarded in the United Kingdom since the Thatcherite reforms of the 1980s. It also makes a powerful case for the potential for procurement linkages to be used to advance social justice, while also making the wider claim that economic tools such as procurement can be used as instruments of social change without risking the commodification of equality as a value...It will inevitably become a major point of reference in this field throughout Europe and North America: no other text on this topic comes close to matching the range and authority of this book.

• PART I: PRELIMINARIES ; PART II: THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION AND PROCUREMENT LINKAGES ; PART III: EQUALITY LINKAGES AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ; PART IV: INTERPRETATION ; PART V: CONCLUSIONS