Book Description
Introduction / Ingrid Leijten, Toomas Kotkas and Frans Pennings -- What is the Relationship between the Minimum Thresholds and Distributive Justice? / David Bilchitz -- An Essential Dimension of the Social Minimum / Malcolm Torry -- A Social Minimum for Whom? : Making a Case for a Normative Pattern of Pragmatic Decency / Sara Stendahl and Otto Swedrup -- The Social Minimum in the Context of Inequality / Michael Adler -- Is there Common Ground for Defining a Decent Social Minimum in Europe? / Tim Goedemé, Tess Penne, Otto Swedrup, Karel Van den Bosch and Bérénice Storms -- Poverty Measurement and Poverty Alleviation between Norm-setting and Empirical Inquiries / Eberhard Eichenhofer -- Territorial and Extraterritorial Obligations to Ensure a Decent Social Minimum / Elena Pribytkova -- Ending Poverty: Human Rights and Responsibilities / David Piachaud -- The Legal Status of Recipients of Public Assistance / Frans Pennings -- Giving Legal Substance to the Social Minimum / Colm O'Cinneide -- Legal Strategies and the Question of the Social Minimum : A Systems-Theoretical Approach / Toomas Kotkas -- Social Minima at the UN Treaty Bodies: Minimal Consistency? / Ben TC Warwick -- Potential and Pitfalls of Indivisible Judicial Protection of a Social Minimum : From Inflation to Procedural Protection? / Ingrid Leijten -- Vulnerability as a Path to a 'Social Minimum'? : An Analysis of ECtHR Jurisprudence / Dimitrios Kagiaros -- Constitutionalising a Social Minimum as a Minimum Core / Katie Boyle.