Legal Empowerment

Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law

Under “strong-form” judicial review, as in the United States, judicial interpretations of the constitution are binding on other...

Sidewalk Standoff: Street Vendor Regulations are Costly, Confusing, and Leave Many Disgruntled

Medidas cautelares para trabajadores informalesLa Revista Académica de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad La Salle

La Revista Académica de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad La Salle, es un texto con rigor científico que tiene por objeto abordar...

Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Lessons From Five Countries

Legal Empowerment of Workers in the Informal Economy

This report provides detailed information on a project, where workers were trained on unionism, social security, occupational health and...

Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World

Empirical study of social rights litigation from Brazil, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and South Africa

Enhancing Capabilities Through Labour Law: Informal Workers in India

In 2002 the International Labour Organization issued a report titled ‘Decent work and the informal economy’ in which it stressed the need...

¿Qué derechos laborales tienen los trabajadores informales del servicio de limpia en la ciudad de México?: el caso de los trabajadores voluntarios y pepenadoresMétodhos

El presente artículo tiene por objetivo demostrar que el servicio de limpia es un servicio público cuya realización corresponde al Gobierno...

Informal Work and the Social Function of the City: A Framework for Legal Reform in the Urban Environment

The New Urban Agenda envisages cities and human settlements that fulfil their social function. But what is a city’s “social function”? And...

Empoderamiento Legal de los Trabajadores en la Economía Informal

Estratégias para fortelecer la capacidad de las organizaciones de trabajadores y trabajadoras en empleo informal