Amartya Sen and Law

Carrie Menkel-Meadow is Distinguished Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine and A.B. Chettle Professor of Law, Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure, Emerita at Georgetown University, USA.Victor V. Ramraj is Professor of Law, Chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations, and Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives at the University of Victoria, Canada.Arun K. Thiruvengadam is Professor of Law at the School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India.Supriya Routh is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Canada.

• IntroductionPart I: Constitutionalism & Justice Arun Thiruvengadam and Gedion Hessebon, "Constitutionalism & Impoverishment: A Complex Dynamic" in Michel Rosenfeld and András Sajo (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law (OUP: 2012), 153-168. Cesar Arjona, Arif Jamal, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Victor V. Ramraj and Francisco Satiro, ‘Senses of Sen: Reflections on Sen’s Ideas of Justice’, 8 International Journal of Law in Context, 8, 1, 2012, 155-178.Part II: Human Rights & The Capability Approach Martha C. Nussbaum, ‘Capabilities and Human Rights’, Fordham Law Review, 66, 1997-98, 273-300. Upendra Baxi, ‘Amartya Sen and Human Rights’, in Human Rights in a Posthuman World – Critical Essays (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 30-75. Kim Lane Scheppele, ‘Amartya Sen’s Vision for Human Rights—and Why He Needs the Law’, American University International Law Review, 27, 1, 2012, 17-35. Charles Gore, ‘Entitlement Relations and "Unruly" Social Practices: A Comment on the Work of Amartya Sen’, The Journal of Development Studies, 29, 3, 1993, 429-460. Part III: Labour Law & Social Security Brian Langille, ‘Labour Law's Theory of Justice’, in Guy Davidov and Brian Langille (eds), The Idea of Labour Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 101-119. Simon Deakin and Jude Browne, ‘Social Rights and Market Order: Adapting the Capability Approach’, in Tamara K. Hervey and Jeff Kenner (eds), Economic and Social Rights under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – A Legal Perspective (Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Hart, 2003), pp. 27-43. Supriya Routh, ‘A Capability Approach to Labour Law’, in Enhancing Capabilities through Labour Law: Informal Workers in India (New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 146-180. Part IV: Gender & Law Martha Nussbaum, ‘Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements: Sen and Social Justice’, Feminist Economics, 9, 2-3, 2003, 33-59. Judy Fudge, ‘Labour as a "Fictive Commodity": Radically Reconceptualizing Labour Law’, in Guy Davidov and Brian Langille (eds), The Idea of Labour Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 120-136.Part V: Law, Development & Democracy in India Stuart Corbridge, ‘Development as Freedom: The Spaces of Amartya Sen’, Progress in Development Studies, 2, 3, 2002, 183-217. David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos, ‘Introduction: The Third Moment in Law and Development Theory and the Emergence of a New Critical Practice’ in David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos (eds), The New Law and Development: A Critical Appraisal (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2005), pp. 1-18. Part VI: International Law & Intergenerational Justice Bhupinder Chimni, ‘The Sen Conception of Development and Contemporary International Law Discourse: Some Parallels’, The Law and Development Review, 1, 1, 2008, 3-22.