Toward an equality-promoting interpretation of socio-economic rights in South Africa : insights from the egalitarian liberal tradition
| dc.contributor.author | Liebenberg, Sandra | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-25T09:13:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-25T09:13:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-01 | |
| dc.description | CITATION: Liebenberg, S. 2015. Toward an equality-promoting interpretation of socio-economic rights in South Africa: Insights from the egalitarian liberal tradition. South African Law Journal, 132(2):411-437. | en_ZA |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at https://journals.co.za/content/journal/ju_salj | |
| dc.description.abstract | Theorists within the egalitarian liberal tradition have grappled with the question of how to achieve an alignment between the attribution of equal worth and citizenship to each person and the distribution of material resources in democratic societies. Their insights are relevant to devising constitutionally grounded strategies for redressing the intertwined challenges of poverty and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa. This article examines the implications of these theories for integrating the value of equality in the interpretation of socio-economic rights by the courts. It concludes that Nancy Fraser’s principle of parity of participation offers rich possibilities for rendering both reasonableness review and the application of socio-economic rights to contractual relations more responsive to systemic social and economic inequalities. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publishers version | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Liebenberg, S. 2015. Toward an equality-promoting interpretation of socio-economic rights in South Africa: Insights from the egalitarian liberal tradition. South African Law Journal, 132(2):411-437. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1996-2177 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0258-2503 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/104478 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Juta Law | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | Juta Law | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | socio-economic rights | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | egalitarian liberal tradition | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | inequality in South African income households | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | household income -- South African | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | inequality --South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Toward an equality-promoting interpretation of socio-economic rights in South Africa : insights from the egalitarian liberal tradition | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |