A new and comprehensive account of the South African Constitutional Court's social rights decisions.

Brian Ray is Professor of Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University. He has published widely on social rights and judicial review, and his work has appeared in leading journals including the Stanford Journal of International Law, the South African Journal of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court Review.

1. Introduction; Part I. Justiciability and the First Wave: 2. The justiciability debate and the new constitution; 3. The first wave cases; 4. A 'curious divergence'; Part II. Procedure and the Second Wave: 5. The second-wave cases; 6. Evictions and education; 7. Patterns and possibilities in the second wave; Part III. Procedure's Potential: 8. The eviction model; 9. Democratic engagement; 10. Conclusion: real rights.