25th April 16:00 (hybrid) at Bergen Global.
As part of the Book Salons on Constitution, Courts, and Politics, UiB students along with Siri Gloppen interview Malcolm Langford on his book ‘Social Rights Judgements and the Politics of Compliance‘.
This event is free to attend and open to all
About the book:
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 implemented. Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance is the first book to engage in a comparative study of compliance of social rights judgments as well as their broader effects. Covering fourteen different domestic and international jurisdictions, and drawing on multiple disciplines, it finds significant variance in outcomes and reveals both spectacular successes and failures in making social rights a reality on the ground. This variance is strikingly similar to that found in previous studies on civil rights, and the key explanatory factors lie in the political calculus of defendants and the remedial framework. The book also discusses which strategies have enhanced implementation, and focuses on judicial reflexivity, alliance building and social mobilisation.