Koldo Casla, UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing and Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School & Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, UK

‘This brilliant book grasps vital issues that have eluded the human rights movement for many years. Casla reconciles social rights, property, and the social function. Everybody committed to the future of human rights will benefit from his exceptional - and accessible - scholarship on the social right to property.’

• Contents1 Introduction: is the ancient institution of property fit forcontemporary social rights? 2 Property and social rights in international human rights law:between mutism and polysemy 3 Property in comparative law 4 Property as ideology and as institution: reconciling socialrights and property through social function 5 The social right to property: a proposal 6 Adequate housing and the social right to property 7 Private provision of public services and the social right toproperty 8 Conclusion: the utility of property in ensuring rights for all

Koldo Casla, UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing and Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School & Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, UK

‘This brilliant book grasps vital issues that have eluded the human rights movement for many years. Casla reconciles social rights, property, and the social function. Everybody committed to the future of human rights will benefit from his exceptional - and accessible - scholarship on the social right to property.’

• Contents1 Introduction: is the ancient institution of property fit forcontemporary social rights? 2 Property and social rights in international human rights law:between mutism and polysemy 3 Property in comparative law 4 Property as ideology and as institution: reconciling socialrights and property through social function 5 The social right to property: a proposal 6 Adequate housing and the social right to property 7 Private provision of public services and the social right toproperty 8 Conclusion: the utility of property in ensuring rights for all

Koldo Casla, UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing and Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School & Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, UK

‘This brilliant book grasps vital issues that have eluded the human rights movement for many years. Casla reconciles social rights, property, and the social function. Everybody committed to the future of human rights will benefit from his exceptional - and accessible - scholarship on the social right to property.’

• Contents1 Introduction: is the ancient institution of property fit forcontemporary social rights? 2 Property and social rights in international human rights law:between mutism and polysemy 3 Property in comparative law 4 Property as ideology and as institution: reconciling socialrights and property through social function 5 The social right to property: a proposal 6 Adequate housing and the social right to property 7 Private provision of public services and the social right toproperty 8 Conclusion: the utility of property in ensuring rights for all