Public Law Studies Quarterly

The Relevant Factors in the Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Document Type : Article

Authors

Ali Shahbazi 1
Ahmad Ranjbar 2
Mohammad Sadeghi 3

1 Ph.D Student, Department of Public Law, faculty of Humanities, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran

2 Assistant Prof., Department of Public Law, Faculty of Humanities, Bandar Abbas Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran

3 Assistant Prof., Hormoz Research Institute, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jplsq.2021.315317.2653
Abstract
There are two general approaches toward the constitutionalization and  jusiciability of  economic, social and cultural rights. According to the socialist approach economic, social and cultural rights should be constitutionaized and are justiciable. Constitutionalization of  economic, social and cultural rights in one hand saves these rights of temporary political orientation and on the other hand makes justiciability of these rights easier. While in liberal approach civil and political rights are constitutionalized and judicially protected, economic, social and cultural rights are perceived non-justiciable, although constitutional judge can through the welfare interpretation of civil and political rights such as: the right to life, the right to fair trail and non-discrimination, make economic, social and cultural rights justiciable. Social movements also can make alive and enforce constitutional rights. This analytical-descriptive article through the public law point of view, tries to investigate the most important influential factors which makes economic, social and cultural rights as the second generation of human rights as justiciable.

Keywords

constitutionalization
constitutional judge
justiciability
economic
social and cultural rights
social movements

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Public Law Studies Quarterly
Volume 53, Issue 4
Winter 2024
Winter 2024
Pages 2159-2183

  • Receive Date 13 December 2020
  • Revise Date 05 July 2021
  • Accept Date 25 September 2021

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