Includes bibliographical references and index.

Principles of ESR adjudication -- ESR in international law : justiciability and remedies -- The jurisdictional hierarchy as pillars of the UK constitution : the regional framework -- The Constitutional Resistance to Human Rights : The UK in a comparative context -- Models of ESR justiciability: existing mechanisms and future options -- ESR and Devolution

"This book develops principles of adjudication to facilitate accountability for violations of Economic and Social Rights. Economic and Social Rights engage with areas relating to social justice and their violation tends to impact on the most vulnerable members of society. Taking the UK as a case study, the book draws on international experience and comparative practice, including progressive reform at the devolved sub-state level, that demonstrate the potential reach of Economic and Social Rights when the rights are given legal standing in domestic settings according to their status in international law. The work looks at different models of incorporation of rights into domestic law and sets out existing justiciability mechanisms for their enforcement as well as future models open to development. In so doing the book develops principles of adjudication drawn from deliberative democracy theory that help address some of the critiques of social rights adjudication"--