Poverty: rights, social citizenship, and legal activism

Abstract

Preface Introduction Part 1: Poverty and Rights: Reading Gosselin 1 Reality checks: Presuming Innocence and Proving Guilt in Charter Welfare Cases / Martha Jackman 2 But It's for Your Own Good / Diane Pothier 3 Social Rights and Judicial Competence / David Schneiderman Part 2: Social Citizenship and the State 4 Claiming Adjudicative space: Social Rights and Citizenship / Bruce Porter 5 Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Charter Equality Litigation to Advance Women's Rights / Sharon McIvor 6 Welfare Reformed: The Re-making of the Model Citizen / Janet Mosher 7 The Made in Quebec Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion / Lucie Lamarche 8 Trade Regime Federalism: An Assessment of the Social Union Framework Agreement / Barbara Cameron Part 3: Social Citizenship and International Contexts 9 Collective Economic Rights and International Trade Agreements: In the Vacuum of post-National Capital Control / Marjorie Griffin Cohen 10 Enforcing Social and Economic Rights at the Domestic Level: A Proposal / Grainne McKeever and Fionnuala Ni Aolain 11 Minding the Gap: Treaty Commitments and Government Practice / Shelagh Day 12 Litigating Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: How Far Will the Courts Go? / Karrisha Pillay Part 4: Beyond Gosselin: Legal Theory Emboldened 13 Taking Competence Seriously / David Wiseman 14 Dignity, Equality, and Second Generation Rights / Denise Reaume 15 The Charter as an Impediment to Welfare Roll Backs: A Meditation on Justice as Fairness as a Bedrock Value of the Canadian Democratic Project / Ken Norman Part 5: Legal Activism Revived 16 Why Rights Now? Law and Desperation / Margot Young 17 The Challenge of Litigating the Rights of Poor People: The Right to Legal Aid as a Test Case / Melina Buckley 18 Charter Rights and Government Choices / Gwen Brodsky