The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization

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The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization

By Whitney K. Taylor
Cambridge University Press June 2023

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9781009367769
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
June 2023
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Hardback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In The Social Constitution, Whitney Taylor examines the conditions under which new constitutional rights become meaningful and institutionalized. Taylor introduces the concept of 'embedding' constitutional law to clarify how particular visions of law come to take root both socially and legally. Constitutional embedding can occur through legal mobilization, as citizens understand the law in their own way and make legal claims - or choose not to - on the basis of that understanding, and as judges decide whether and how to respond to legal claims. These interactions ultimately construct the content and strength of the constitutional order. Taylor draws on more than a year of fieldwork across Colombia and multiple sources of data, including semi-structured interviews, original surveys, legal documents, and participation observation.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the social constitution
2. Constitutional embedding through legal mobilization
3. Expectations and transformations of Colombian constitutional law
4. Social embedding
5. Legal embedding
6. Challenges to embedding: legal legibility
7. Challenges to embedding: power struggles
8. Challenges to embedding: workload
9. Partial constitutional embedding: the case of South Africa
10. Conclusion. Social constitutionalism and the politics of rights
Appendix: interviewees
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