Justice and Transformation: Examining the Value of Socio-Economic Rights in Transformative Constitutions

Abstract

This paper sets out to assess the value of socio-economic rights in the transformative constitutions of resource rich, post-trauma nations. In the interest of revealing assumptions and biases at the outset, the question itself requires some explication, particularly because the definition and usage of many words in the question alone are subject to sufficient academic debate as to warrant papers of their own. [From introductory section]