Human Rights and Public Finance

Aoife Nolan is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the School of Law, Nottingham University.Rory O'Connell is Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law at the Transitional Justice Institute/School of Law, University of Ulster.Colin Harvey is Professor of Human Rights Law, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast.

• Introduction Aoife Nolan, Rory O'Connell and Colin HarveyI. FOUNDATIONSII. 1. Public Finance, Maximum Available Resources and Human Rights Diane Elson, Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz2. Putting ESR-Based Budget Analysis into Practice: Addressing the Conceptual Challenges Aoife Nolan3. Let Them Eat Cake: Socio-Economic Rights in an Age of Austerity Paul O'Connell4. Resourcing Rights: Combating Tax Injustice from a Human Rights Perspective Ignacio SaizIII. GOVERNANCEIV. 5. Recovering the History of Human Rights: Public Finances and Human Rights Rory O'Connell6. Better on the Margins? A Critique of Mainstreaming Economic and Social Rights Eoin Rooney and Colin HarveyIII. GROUP-SPECIFIC WORK7. Budget for Children Enakshi Ganguly Thukral8. Equality Proofing the Budget: Lessons from the Experiences of Gender Budgeting? Sheila QuinnIV. ANALYSIS IN ACTION9. The Right to Adequate Housing: A Case Study of the Social Housing Budget in Northern Ireland Eoin Rooney and Mira Dutschke10. Assessing the Impact of the Public Spending Cuts: Taking Human Rights and Equality Seriously James Harrison and Mary-Ann Stephenson

... identifying and clarifying what the obligations to work towards the full realisation of the [International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights] rights entail vis-à-vis public finance is an urgent task that deserves close attention from scholars as well as practitioners. Given the fundamental importance of social and economic rights and the political rhetoric of 'permanent austerity' in many countries the collection is timely, and it provides an important contribution to the on-going debates.