The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Ben Saul is Professor of International Law and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Sydney. Ben has expertise on global counter-terrorism law, human rights, the law of armed conflict, and international criminal law. He has published 10 books, 75 scholarly articles, and hundreds of other publications and presentations, and his research has been used in national and international courts. Ben has taught law at Oxford, the Hague Academy of International Law and in China, India, Nepal and Cambodia, and has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Ben practises as a barrister in international and national courts, has advised various United Nations bodies and foreign governments, has delivered foreign aid projects, and often appears in the media. He has a doctorate in law from Oxford and honours degrees in Arts and Law from Sydney.Professor David Kinley holds the Chair in Human Rights Law at University of Sydney, and is the Law Faculty's Associate-Dean (International). He is also an Academic Panel member of Doughty Street Chambers in London. He has previously held positions at Cambridge University, The Australian National University, the University of New South Wales, Washington College of Law, American University, and most recently was the founding Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University (2000-2005). He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in 2004, based in Washington DC, and Herbert Smith Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge during the first half of 2008. He has written and edited eight books and more than 80 articles, book chapters, reports, and papers.Jacqueline Mowbray is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sydney. She also teaches on the European Regional Master's Degree in Democracy and Human Rights in South-East Europe, based in Sarajevo. She is a graduate of the Universities of Queensland (BA/LLB (Hons)), Melbourne (LLM) and Cambridge (LLM (Hons), PhD).

This book undoubtedly makes a profound contribution to the project of developing a coherent, systemic and persuasive jurisprudence on ESCR. At 1,360 pages long, the book at first appears intimidating. However, it is well written and easy to dip in and out of, making it easily accessible both to scholars and students of international human rights for whom it should become a standard resource.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Article 1: The right of self-determination ; Article 25: The right to freely utilize natural resources ; 3. Article 2(1): The principle of progressive realisation ; 4. Article 2(2): Non-discrimination ; 5. Article 2(3): Developing state exception ; 6. Article 3: Equality ; 7. Article 4: General limitations clause ; Article 5: Prohibition of abuse of rights ; Article 24: No prejudice to the United Nations ; 8. Article 6: The right to work ; 9. Article 7: Just and favourable conditions of work ; 10. Article 8: Trade union-related rights ; 11. Article 9: The right to social security ; 12. Article 10: Rights of families, mothers and children ; 13. Article 11: The right to an adequate standard of living ; 14. Article 12: The right to health ; 15. Article 13: The right to education ; Article 14: Primary education ; 16. Article 15: Cultural Rights