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"This book is about home and international law. More specifically, it is about the profound, and frequently devastating, transformations of home that are happening almost everywhere in the world today, and what international law has to do with them. Through three stories of home - the desert home, the lake home, and the city home - this book traces how the everyday operations of international law shape the material, affective and imaginative experience of home. It argues that international law's 'homemaking work' is characterised by acts of domination, practices of resistance and the production of unhomely space. However, the book also considers whether and how the liberatory potential of international law could be unlocked through the metaphor of home. This book draws from fieldwork conducted by the author in Cambodia, Palestine and the United Kingdom. It takes a global socio-legal approach to home and international law, informed by feminist political theory, feminist geography, home studies and contemporary critical approaches to international law. It is the first academic work to examine the relationship between home and international law. This book's global socio-legal approach to international law and home will be of interest to those teaching and studying in international law, socio-legal studies, legal pluralism and legal geography"--

The recent focus on economic, social and cultural rights suggests a new maturity in the debate about rights in Australia. In 2010, the report of the Australian Capital Territory Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Research Project proposed that justiciable economic, social and cultural rights be given the same importance in the ACT�s Human Rights Act 2004 as civil and political rights. This article discusses the ACT report�s contribution to the development of a normative framework for protecting economic, social and cultural rights in Australia. The article concludes that while the report achieves some important goals, it misses other opportunities to move the rights debate forward. Overall, the report raises more questions than it answers.