Front Matter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Reading Gosselin
Reality Checks: Presuming Innocence and Proving Guilt in Charter Welfare Cases
But It's for Your Own Good
Social Rights and "Common Sense": Gosselin through a Media Lens
Social Citizenship and the State
Claiming Adjudicative Space: Social Rights, Equality, and Citizenship
Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Equality Litigation to Advance Women's Rights
Welfare Reform and the Re-Making of the Model Citizen
The "Made in Québec" Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion: The Complex Relationship between Poverty and Human Rights
Accounting for Rights and Money in the Canadian Social Union
Social Citizenship and International Contexts
Collective Economic Rights and International Trade Agreements: In the Vacuum of Post-National Capital Control
Minding the Gap: Human Rights Commitments and Compliance
Enforcing Social and Economic Rights at the Domestic Level: A Proposal
Litigating Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: How Far Will the Courts Go?
Legal Theory after Gosselin
Taking Competence Seriously
Dignity, Equality, and Second Generation Rights
The Charter as an Impediment to Welfare Rollbacks: A Meditation on "Justice as Fairness" as a "Bedrock Value" of the Canadian Democratic Project
Legal Activism Revived
Why Rights Now? Law and Desperation
The Challenge of Litigating the Rights of Poor People: The Right to Legal Aid as a Test Case
The Subversion of Human Rights by Governments in Canada
Contributors
Index