Socio-economic rights : adjudication under a transformative constitution / Sandra Liebenberg.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 522-539) and index.

The struggle for recognition -- A transformative jurisprudence on socio-economic rights -- Socio-economic rights in the context of the Bill of Rights -- Reconceiving reasonableness review -- Children, education, persons deprived of their liberty -- A new paradigm for evictions law -- Socio-economic rights in private law -- Responsive remedies -- Postscript.

Provides an analysis of the socio-economic rights jurisprudence of the democratic South Africa. This book explores how the judicial interpretation and enforcement of socio-economic rights can be more responsive to the conditions of systemic poverty and inequality characterising South African society.