1. Introduction Ingrid Leijten, Toomas Kotkas and Frans Pennings PART 1 CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS 2. What is the Relationship between the Minimum Thresholds and Distributive Justice? David Bilchitz 3. An Essential Dimension of the Social Minimum Malcolm Torry 4. A Social Minimum for Whom? Making a Case for a Normative Pattern of Pragmatic Decency Sara Stendahl and Otto Swedrup PART 2 SPECIFYING A SOCIAL MINIMUM 5. The Social Minimum in the Context of Inequality Michael Adler 6. 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 7. Poverty Measurement and Poverty Alleviation between Norm-setting and Empirical Inquiries Eberhard Eichenhofer PART 3 SECURING A SOCIAL MINIMUM: OBLIGATIONS FOR STATES AND INDIVIDUALS 8. Territorial and Extraterritorial Obligations to Ensure a Decent Social Minimum Elena Pribytkova 9. Ending Poverty: Human Rights and Responsibilities David Piachaud 10. The Legal Status of Recipients of Public Assistance Frans Pennings PART 4 SECURING A SOCIAL MINIMUM: THE ROLE OF COURTS AND SUPERVISORY BODIES 11. Giving Legal Substance to the Social Minimum Colm O’Cinneide 12. Legal Strategies and the Question of the Social Minimum: A Systems-Theoretical Approach Toomas Kotkas 13. Social Minima at the UN Treaty Bodies: Minimal Consistency? Ben TC Warwick 14. Potential and Pitfalls of Indivisible Judicial Protection of a Social Minimum: From Inflation to Procedural Protection? Ingrid Leijten 15. Vulnerability as a Path to a ‘Social Minimum’? An Analysis of ECtHR Jurisprudence Dimitrios Kagiaros 16. Constitutionalising a Social Minimum as a Minimum Core Katie Boyle

The range of perspectives in the book is what readers will find appealing; persons who are interested in the social minimum will have an interesting read … a number of intriguing ideas are proposed and discussed, which will hopefully spark inspiration for further research.

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