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Author:   Daniel Bonilla Maldonado
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781107459403

ISBN 10:   1107459400
Pages:   422
Publication Date:   30 October 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I. Introduction; Part II. Socio-economic Rights: 1. Constitutions and distributive justice: complementary or contradictory? David Bilchitz; 2. The embedded negotiators: India's higher judiciary and socioeconomic rights Shylashri Shankar; 3. Economic and social rights, prisons, and the Colombian constitutional court Libardo Ariza; Part III. Cultural Diversity: 4. Cultural diversity, 'living law', and power: progress and contradictions Cathi Albertyn; 5. Keeping the faith: legitimizing democracy through judicial practices Gurpreet Mahajan; 6. Self-government and cultural identity: the Colombian constitutional court and the right to prior consultation Daniel Bonilla; Part IV. Access to Justice: 7. Courts and structural poverty in South Africa: has the constitutional court expanded access and remedies to the poor? Jackie Dugard; 8. Access to justice in India: the jurisprudence (and self-perception) of the Supreme Court Menaka Guruswamy and Bipin Aspatwar; 9. Access to constitutional justice in Colombia: opportunities and challenges for social and political change Manuel Iturralde.

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Daniel Bonilla is Distinguished Leitner Center Visiting Professor at Fordham Law School and Associate Professor of Law at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. He received his JSD and LLM from Yale Law School. He has been a visiting professor or lecturer at a number of institutions, including Yale Law School, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Fordham Law School, University of Texas School of Law, Georgia State University College of Law and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His recent publications include La función social de la propiedad (2012), Democracia, derecho y economía de mercado (2010) and Teoría del derecho y transplantes jurídicos (2009). He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and several awards for excellence in teaching.

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