Specifying and Securing a Social Minimum in the Battle Against Poverty

Toomas Kotkas is Professor of Jurisprudence and Social Law at the University of Eastern Finland. Ingrid Leijten is Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University.Frans Pennings is Professor of Labour and Social Security Law at Utrecht University.

• 1. Introduction Ingrid Leijten, Toomas Kotkas and Frans PenningsPART 1CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS2. What is the Relationship between the Minimum Thresholds and Distributive Justice? David Bilchitz3. An Essential Dimension of the Social Minimum Malcolm Torry4. A Social Minimum for Whom? Making a Case for a Normative Pattern of Pragmatic Decency Sara Stendahl and Otto SwedrupPART 2SPECIFYING A SOCIAL MINIMUM5. The Social Minimum in the Context of Inequality Michael Adler6. Is there Common Ground for Defining a Decent Social Minimum in Europe? Tim Goedemé, Tess Penne, Otto Swedrup, Karel Van den Bosch and Bérénice Storms7. Poverty Measurement and Poverty Alleviation between Norm-setting and Empirical Inquiries Eberhard EichenhoferPART 3SECURING A SOCIAL MINIMUM: OBLIGATIONS FOR STATES AND INDIVIDUALS8. Territorial and Extraterritorial Obligations to Ensure a Decent Social Minimum Elena Pribytkova9. Ending Poverty: Human Rights and Responsibilities David Piachaud10. The Legal Status of Recipients of Public Assistance Frans PenningsPART 4SECURING A SOCIAL MINIMUM: THE ROLE OF COURTS AND SUPERVISORY BODIES11. Giving Legal Substance to the Social Minimum Colm O’Cinneide12. Legal Strategies and the Question of the Social Minimum: A Systems-Theoretical Approach Toomas Kotkas13. Social Minima at the UN Treaty Bodies: Minimal Consistency? Ben TC Warwick14. Potential and Pitfalls of Indivisible Judicial Protection of a Social Minimum: From Inflation to Procedural Protection? Ingrid Leijten15. Vulnerability as a Path to a ‘Social Minimum’? An Analysis of ECtHR Jurisprudence Dimitrios Kagiaros16. Constitutionalising a Social Minimum as a Minimum Core Katie Boyle

The range of perspectives in the book is what readers will find appealing; persons who are interested in the social minimum will have an interesting read … a number of intriguing ideas are proposed and discussed, which will hopefully spark inspiration for further research.