Thickening the Rule of Law in Transition: Lessons from the Constitutional Entrenchment of Economic and Social Rights in South Africa Evelyne Schmid Abstract This chapter examines the ability of the South African Constitutional Court to apply economic and social rights (ESR) and whether the constitutionalization of ESR represents a mechanism capable of entrenching a substantive or ‘thick’ conception of the rule of law. [read post]

Evelyne Schmid has left her position as a lecturer at the University of Bangor in Wales and returned to Switzerland for a “habilitation” research project at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel. [read post]