First published in 2014.

Introduction / Aoife Nolan. Part I. Painting the big (global) picture: the crises and economic and social rights protection internationally Alternatives to austerity: a human rights framework for economic recovery / Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona. Late-neoliberalism: the financialisation of homeownership and the housing rights of the poor / Raquel Rolnik & Lidia Rabinovich. The role of global governance in supporting human rights : the global food price crisis and the right to food / Olivier De Schutter. Part II. Teasing out obligations in a time of crisis Two steps forward, no steps back? : evolving criteria on the prohibition of retrogression in economic, social and cultural rights / Aoife Nolan, Nicholas J. Lusiani & Christian Courtis. Extraterritorial obligations, financial globalisation, and macroeconomic governance / Radhika Balakrishnan & James Heintz. Part III. Exploring responses to financial and economic crises Austerity and the faded dream of a 'social Europe' / Colm O'Cinneide. Rationalising the right to health : is Spain's austere response to the economic crisis impermissible under international human rights law / Nicholas J. Lusiani. Tough times and weak review : the 2008 economic meltdown and the enforcement of socio-economic rights in U.S. state courts / Helen Hershkoff & Stephen Loffredo. The promise of a minimum core approach : the Colombian model for judicial review of austerity measures / David Landau. Economic and social rights and the Supreme Court of Argentina in decade following the 2001-2003 crises / Gustavo Maurino & Ezequiel Nino. Recession, recovery and service delivery : political and judicial responses to the financial and economic crisis in South Africa / Anashri Pillay & Murray Wesson.