Complications relating to access to socio-economic rights have existed since the inception of the second generation rights. States perpetually defend restrictions to access by pleading a lack of resources. The last few months have made the unequal access to socio-economic rights ever more clear. The long and continuous dismantling of the welfare state by neoliberal …
Tag: Crisis
2020 PoL Webinar Series | A Candle in the Dark: Illuminating Crises in the Peripheries
‘Unprecedented crisis’ has become a popular term used by media outlets and academic discourse to describe the present state of affairs in the world. Certainly, the last decade has been marked by epochal shifts in the global order, of which the 2008 economic crash and the current pandemic are the poster children. These and other …
Peripheries of Law 