Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Socio-Economic Rights in India and China: Time for Academic Engagement between the Two Asian Giants (Surya Deva) Part I: Governance Challenges Chapter 2 Socio-Economic Rights in the Contemporary World Market: China, India, and the ‘Gang of Four’ (Paul Cammack) Chapter 3. Realising Socio-Economic Rights under Emerging Global Regulatory Frameworks: The Potential Impact of Privatisation and the Role of Companies in China and India (Larry Catá Backer) Chapter 4. The Right to Environment in Emerging Economies: An India-China Comparison (Domenico Amirante) Part II: Role of Courts and Public Interest Litigation Chapter 5 Enforcing Social Rights through Public Interest Litigation: An Overview of Indian Experience (Parmanand Singh) Chapter 6. A Tale of Two Judiciaries: Judicial Enforcement of Economic and Social Rights in China and India (Randall Peerenboom) Chapter 7. The Paradox of Justiciability: Labour Rights Litigation and the Realisation of Socio-Economic Rights in China and India (Leïla Choukroune) Chapter 8. Protection of Labour Rights through Judicial Legislation in China: An Analysis of its Constitutionality and Possible Solution (Lin Feng and Wang Shucheng) Chapter 9. Social Justice and Social Rights in Hong Kong: Recent Judicial Review Developments and Proposal for Legislative Change (Karen Kong) Part III: Selected Indo-Chinese Perspectives on Socio-Economic Rights Chapter 10. The Vindicated Market and Vulnerable Health Care: Human Rights Perspective from India (Uday Shankar) Chapter 11. Bilateral Investment Treaties and Public Health: Comparative Insights from China and India (Prabhash Ranjan) Chapter 12. Right to Food and Safety of Food: Reviewing the Approaches Adopted by China and India (Mo Jihong and Kavitha Ramanathan) Chapter 13. Right to Education in India and China (Mahendra P Singh and Liu Jianlong) Chapter 14. Right to Social Security: Assessing Chinese Practice against International Standards (Zhu Guobin) Chapter 15 ‘No Child Policy’ vs. ‘One-Child Policy’ in Emerging Free Markets: Has It Mattered for Women in India and China? (Surya Deva)

About the Author

Surya Deva is Associate Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong.