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Marxism and public law (2023)
Book Chapter
O’Connell, P. (2023). Marxism and public law. In P. Daly, & J. Tomlinson (Eds.), Researching Public Law in Common Law Systems (231-250). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904383.00019

This chapter sets out the general contours of a Marxist approach to the study of public law. It begins by setting out some of the core elements of Marxist analysis, namely historical materialism and class antagonism, and noting the general relevance... Read More about Marxism and public law.

The poetry of the future: Law, Marxism, and social change (2021)
Book Chapter
O’Connell, P. (2021). The poetry of the future: Law, Marxism, and social change. In P. O’Connell, & U. Özsu (Eds.), Research Handbook on Law and Marxism (458-476). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119863.00032

As with broader debates over the Marxist tradition, there are many Marxist approaches to law, rights, and the state. Even so, this chapter argues that we gain a sharper appreciation of the vexed question of Marxism’s relation to law, rights, and the... Read More about The poetry of the future: Law, Marxism, and social change.

The constitutional architecture of injustice (2019)
Book Chapter
O’Connell, P. (2019). The constitutional architecture of injustice. In T. Ahmed, & E. Fahey (Eds.), On Brexit: Law, Justices and Injustices (55-63). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903010.00011

One of the many issues that the Brexit conjuncture raises is how does the Brexit vote and the broader processes around it intersect with and relate to justice. This chapter argues that the Brexit vote can be viewed as a reaction against forms of stru... Read More about The constitutional architecture of injustice.

Let Them Eat Cake: Socio-Economic in an Age of Austerity (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, P. (2013). Let Them Eat Cake: Socio-Economic in an Age of Austerity. In A. Nolan, R. O'Connell, & C. Harvey (Eds.), Human Rights and Public Finance : Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights. Hart

Fundamental Social Rights (2012)
Book Chapter
Katrougalos, G., & O’Connell, P. (2012). Fundamental Social Rights. In M. Tushnet, T. Fleiner, & C. Saunders (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law (375-385). Routledge

This chapter provides an general overview of, and introduction to, the scholarship, debates and controversies on fundamental social rights. It sketches the origin of the concept of social rights, showing how the distinct formation of European Social... Read More about Fundamental Social Rights.

Social and economic rights (2012)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, P., & Katrougalos, G. (2012). Social and economic rights. In M. Tushnet, T. Fleiner, & C. Saunders (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law. Routledge

Brave New World?: Human Rights in the Era of Globalisation (2010)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, P. (2010). Brave New World?: Human Rights in the Era of Globalisation. In M. Baderin, & M. Ssenyonjo (Eds.), International Human Rights Law: Six Decades After the UDHR and Beyond. Ashgate

Globalization is the meta-narrative of our age.1 Few, if any, contemporary social phenomena, whether migration, global warming, or the present global economic crisis, are deemed intelligible outside the easy, intuitively appealing explanatory shortha... Read More about Brave New World?: Human Rights in the Era of Globalisation.

The Human Right to Health in an Age of Market Hegemony (2010)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, P. (2010). The Human Right to Health in an Age of Market Hegemony. In J. Harrington, & M. Stuttaford (Eds.), Global Health and Human Rights: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives. Routledge

Recognition that individuals and communities enjoy a human right to health has, progressively, come to be widely accepted at the international, regional and domestic levels. First with the post-Second World War consensus on human rights, and subseque... Read More about The Human Right to Health in an Age of Market Hegemony.