Dr Katharine Young is Associate Professor at Boston College Law School. She completed doctoral studies at Harvard Law School and law and arts degrees at Melbourne Law School. Dr Young has served as a Fellow at a number of interdisciplinary programs, including Amartya Sen's Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics at Harvard University. She has comparative professional experience in Australia, the United States, and in the United Nations legal system.

Social and economic rights are growing apace throughout the world. Anyone seeking a thoughtful and comprehensive overview of the different ways in which courts throughout the world are enforcing them could do no better than read this sharp-eyed and fluent book.

• 1. Introduction: The Path to Transformation ; PART I: CONSTITUTING RIGHTS BY INTERPRETATION ; 2. Interpretative Standpoints ; 3. Interpreting the Minimum ; 4. Interpreting Limits ; PART II: CONSTITUTING RIGHTS BY ENFORCEMENT ; 5. A Typology of Judicial Review ; 6. The Catalytic Court ; 7. A Comparative Typology of Courts ; PART III: CONSTITUTING RIGHTS BY CONTESTATION ; 8. Social Movements and Economic and Social Rights ; 9. The Governance Function of Economic and Social Rights ; 10. Conclusion: Economic and Social Rights as Human Rights and Constitutional Rights

Dr Katharine Young is Associate Professor at Boston College Law School. She completed doctoral studies at Harvard Law School and law and arts degrees at Melbourne Law School. Dr Young has served as a Fellow at a number of interdisciplinary programs, including Amartya Sen's Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics at Harvard University. She has comparative professional experience in Australia, the United States, and in the United Nations legal system.

Social and economic rights are growing apace throughout the world. Anyone seeking a thoughtful and comprehensive overview of the different ways in which courts throughout the world are enforcing them could do no better than read this sharp-eyed and fluent book.

• 1. Introduction: The Path to Transformation ; PART I: CONSTITUTING RIGHTS BY INTERPRETATION ; 2. Interpretative Standpoints ; 3. Interpreting the Minimum ; 4. Interpreting Limits ; PART II: CONSTITUTING RIGHTS BY ENFORCEMENT ; 5. A Typology of Judicial Review ; 6. The Catalytic Court ; 7. A Comparative Typology of Courts ; PART III: CONSTITUTING RIGHTS BY CONTESTATION ; 8. Social Movements and Economic and Social Rights ; 9. The Governance Function of Economic and Social Rights ; 10. Conclusion: Economic and Social Rights as Human Rights and Constitutional Rights

Dr Katharine Young is Associate Professor at Boston College Law School. She completed doctoral studies at Harvard Law School and law and arts degrees at Melbourne Law School. Dr Young has served as a Fellow at a number of interdisciplinary programs, including Amartya Sen's Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics at Harvard University. She has comparative professional experience in Australia, the United States, and in the United Nations legal system.

Social and economic rights are growing apace throughout the world. Anyone seeking a thoughtful and comprehensive overview of the different ways in which courts throughout the world are enforcing them could do no better than read this sharp-eyed and fluent book.

• 1. Introduction: The Path to Transformation ; PART I: CONSTITUTING RIGHTS BY INTERPRETATION ; 2. Interpretative Standpoints ; 3. Interpreting the Minimum ; 4. Interpreting Limits ; PART II: CONSTITUTING RIGHTS BY ENFORCEMENT ; 5. A Typology of Judicial Review ; 6. The Catalytic Court ; 7. A Comparative Typology of Courts ; PART III: CONSTITUTING RIGHTS BY CONTESTATION ; 8. Social Movements and Economic and Social Rights ; 9. The Governance Function of Economic and Social Rights ; 10. Conclusion: Economic and Social Rights as Human Rights and Constitutional Rights