The past few decades have witnessed an explosion of judgments on social rights around the world. However, we know little about whether these rulings have been i
Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this i
This book is a first-of-its-kind, five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation. Detailed studies of Braz