Transformative Law and Public Policy / edited by Sony Pellissery, Babu Mathew, Avinash Govindjee, and Arvind Narrain.

Contents
List of illustrations;
List of contributors;
Preface;
1 Why is law central to public policy process in the Global South?;
2 The rise of an anti-global doctrine and strikes in public services;
3 Scrutiny of sovereign border policy for ‘operational matters’: a new political role for an old legal dichotomy in Australia?;
4 Sovereign debt restructuring: locating Indian law and jurisprudence in the contemporary international legal order;
5 The legal and policy questions in Foreign Direct Investment: an assessment using Indian case;
6 Politics of making and unmaking of the Indian Planning Commission: destiny of non-statutory institutions in a democracy;
7 Constitutional promises vs practices of participation and representation of minorities in South Asia;
8 Growing up in families with low income: the state’s legal obligation to recognize the child’s right to adequate standard of living;
9 Implementers of law or policymakers too? A study of street-level bureaucracy in India;
10 Production of space in urban India: legal and policy challenges to land assembly;
11 Rawls, Nozick and Dworkin in an Indian village: land alienation and multiple versions of distributive justice;
12 Concluding reflections: transformative constitutionalism as a framework for law and policy integration in the Global South;
Index

"This book explores the convergence of law and public policy. Drawing on case studies from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, it examines how judicial and political institutions are closely linked to the socio-economic concerns of the citizens. The essays argue for the utilisation of both legislative and executive, private and public spheres of society as vehicles for transformative social change and to safeguard against violations of socio-economic rights. The volume will be of great interest to both public and private stakeholders, as well as professionals, including NGOs and think tanks, working in the areas of law, government, and public policy. It will also be immensely useful to academics and researchers of constitutionalism, policymaking and policy integration, social justice and minority rights"-- Provided by publisher.