Judicial and Legal Education

SRAC has conducted extensive judicial and legal education both throughout Canada and around the world.

Bruce Porter "Justiciability of ESC Rights and The Right to Effective Remedies: Historic Challenges and New Opportunities" (Paper commissioned by the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, publication in China forthcoming from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

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Materials for judges and legal advocates:

View Bruce Porter's keynote address to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice Spring Seminar, May 2004.

View the list of relevant cases and materials prepared for Superior Court Judges Social Context Education on Poverty

View "Toward a Comprehensive Framework for ESC Rights Practice" by Bruce Porter.

Canadian ESC Rights Case Index

The Right to an Effective Remedy in International Law (Power Point)

Claiming Social and Economic Rights in Canada (Power Point)

Download "Socio-Economic Rights in a Domestic Charter of Rights: A Canadian Perspective"(2006) by Bruce Porter.

Download "The Justiciability of Social and Economic Rights: An Updated Appraisal" by Bruce Porter and Aoife Nolan in the January 2006 edition of Just News.

The Optional Protocol to the ICESCR - What's at stake? an article by Bruce Porter of SRAC on the need for a complaints procedure under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

View the text of the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR as adopted by the UN Human Rights Council.