The volume entitled, The State of Economic and Social Human Rights: A Global Overview, edited by Lanse Minkler, has been accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press and will be available in December 2012.  It offers original scholarship on economic and social human rights from leading and new cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics (including Susan Randolph from our department), law, political science, sociology and anthropology. It analyzes the core economic and social rights, the crucial topic of non-discrimination, and includes an innovative section on “meta” rights. The main chapters answer important questions about economic and social rights performance around the world by emphasizing the obstacles that prevent governments from fulfilling their obligations.  Novel topics include: discrimination of the stateless, Article 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and new data on the widespread legalization of social security and environmental rights. The book¹s introductory and concluding chapters address conceptual issues, and correct mistakes often made by critics of economic and social rights.

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