CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Luseka, Bemih Kanyonge |
|---|---|
| Title | PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION SECURING PROTECTION OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES AND LESSONS |
| Summary | This thesis reviews the role that different jurisdictions with different economic levels have played in improving the use of PIL as a means of advocating for the realization of social and economic rights. It discusses the challenges posed by PIL for the courts, the litigants and on government policy generally. Discussed with the Kenyan context in mind, it examines how a developing country like Kenya, with great social and economic challenges and a new constitutional dispensation stands to benefit through the use of PIL to ensure a realization of social and economic rights considering the many implementation challenges a new constitutional order places on a nation. It focuses on other means that can be employed to ensure successful PIL – most notably community mobilisation. This thesis draws to a conclusion that PIL, a very important means of achieving realization of social and economic rights, is not a substitute to but rather complements other very important advocacy processes. |
| Supervisor | Wesson Murray |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/luseka_bemih.pdf |
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