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Jeff King
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 17
Citations - 268
Jeff King is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social rights & Public law. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 17 publications receiving 260 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeff King include University of Oxford.
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Judging Social Rights
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theory of judicial restraint and a basic interpretive approach for the enforcement of such a theory in the context of social and economic rights in the United States.
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Institutional Approaches to Judicial Restraint
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the issue of what process courts should use to identify those questions whose resolution lies beyond their appropriate capacity and legitimacy, and propose a general framework for reasoning with principles of restraint, and address some of the key difficulties such a reasoning process would face.
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The Justiciability of Resource Allocation
TL;DR: The non-justiciability doctrine has a relatively narrow scope in administrative and tort law, but it has nearly disappeared under human rights law as discussed by the authors, where courts have chosen mostly to eschew the nonjusticability doctrine in favour of more flexibly applied notions of judicial deference.
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The Pervasiveness of Polycentricity
TL;DR: The authors showed that tax law is heavily polycentric but that there is an accepted role for courts in protecting citizens against the spectre of unfettered public power, and that the existence of such counter-examples forces us to refine or reject Fuller's doctrine.
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Constitutional Rights and Social Welfare: A Comment on the Canadian Chaoulli Health Care Decision
TL;DR: Chaoulli v Quebec (AG) may be the most controversial Supreme Court of Canada decision to date The Court used social science evidence of foreign health care systems to justify its finding that a provincial ban on private health care insurance unjustifiably violated the right to security of the person as discussed by the authors.