ABSTRACT

This book explores the convergence of law and public policy. Drawing on case studies from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, it examines how judicial and political institutions are closely linked to the socio-economic concerns of the citizens. The essays argue for the utilization of both legislative and executive, private and public spheres of society as vehicles for transformative social change and to safeguard against violations of socio-economic rights.

The volume will be of great interest to both public and private stakeholders, as well as professionals, including NGOs and think tanks, working in the areas of law, government, and public policy. It will also be immensely useful to academics and researchers of constitutionalism, policymaking and policy integration, social justice and minority rights.

chapter 3|25 pages

Scrutiny of sovereign border policy for ‘operational matters’

A new political role for an old legal dichotomy in Australia? 1

chapter 4|18 pages

Sovereign debt restructuring

Locating Indian law and jurisprudence in the contemporary international legal order 1

chapter 5|19 pages

The legal and policy questions in Foreign Direct Investment

An assessment using Indian case 1

chapter 6|17 pages

Politics of making and unmaking of the Indian Planning Commission

Destiny of non-statutory institutions in a democracy 1

chapter 8|20 pages

Growing up in families with low income

The state’s legal obligation to recognize the child’s right to adequate standard of living

chapter 9|18 pages

Implementers of law or policymakers too?

A study of street-level bureaucracy in India

chapter 10|13 pages

Production of space in urban India

Legal and policy challenges to land assembly

chapter 11|21 pages

Rawls, Nozick and Dworkin in an Indian village

Land alienation and multiple versions of distributive justice

chapter 12|16 pages

Concluding reflections

Transformative constitutionalism as a framework for law and policy integration in the Global South