Regulating Socio-Economic Inequality

Utilising a Human Rights and Equality Law Framework
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5099-3775-2
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

This book offers a bold, interdisciplinary framework for using human rights and equality law to tackle the growing crisis of socio-economic inequality in modern society.

Socio-economic inequality is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. Over the past decade, homelessness has surged, foodbank reliance has intensified, benefits have been cut, and precarious work has proliferated-while the wealth of the richest has reached unprecedented heights.

Legal scholarship has begun to address this issue, particularly through human rights and equality law. Yet much of this work remains narrowly legalistic, overlooking crucial insights from other disciplines-such as how socio-economic inequality is defined and the diverse ways it might be regulated.

This book fills those gaps. It outlines how human rights and equality law law can more effectively respond to socio-economic inequality by:

- offering a comprehensive definition of socio-economic inequality;
- developing new rationales for legal intervention;
- analysing how law can address its various dimensions; and
- exploring enforcement mechanisms beyond the courtroom.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barrett, David

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part One: The Case for Action to Regulate Socio-Economic Inequality
1. Defining Socio-Economic Inequality
2. Justifying the Regulation of Socio-Economic Inequality
3. Outlining the Limitations of Current Approaches to Addressing Socio-Economic Inequality

Part Two: A New Human Rights and Equality Law Framework to Regulate Socio-Economic Inequality
4. Utilising Human Rights and Equality Law to Regulate Socio-Economic Inequality
5. Defining Obligations to Address Socio-Economic Inequality
6. Monitoring and Enforcing Action to Address Socio-Economic Inequality

Part Three: Regulating Socio-Economic Inequality in Context
7. Regulating Socio-Economic Inequality in Health
8. Regulating Socio-Economic Inequality in Education

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Barrett, David
David Barrett is Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter, UK.

David Barrett is Lecturer in Law at Exeter University, UK.