Jeff King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3948567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeff King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeff |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-1706-5457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Law and power in the age of emergencies: A global study
The COVID-19 pandemic killed over eighteen million people worldwide and occasioned the most invasive mobility restrictions most nations have ever witnessed. In global discussions about state responses to the pandemic - both learned and popular - two familiar views of the role of the state frequently emerged. The ‘Leviathan argument’ bemoaned the impotence of courts and legislatures to control the ‘hyper-executive’ state. The ‘Ciceronian argument’…
Responsible citizens of responsible states
Avia Pasternak’s book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of citizen responsibility for historical wrongs. This review nevertheless offers some scepticism about resting citizen liability exclusively on the idea of intentional participation. It argues that the necessity of the state possessing continuing legal responsibility over time is so intrinsic to the function of statehood that the question of citizen liability should be se…
The Democratic Case for a Written Constitution
Written constitutions have often been viewed as a bridle for unchecked political majoritarianism, as a restraint on government, and hence as a limiting device rather than form of democratic political expression. Breaking with that tradition, this article sets out a democratic case for a written constitution and contrasts it with the rights-based and clarity-based cases. It then proceeds to show why the case against written constitutions – which i…
Democratic Legitimacy
Judging Social Rights
Countries that now contemplate constitutional reform often grapple with the question of whether to constitutionalise social rights. This book presents an argument for why, under the right conditions, doing so can be a good way to advance social justice. In making such a case, the author considers the nature of the social minimum, the role of courts among other institutions, the empirical record of judicial impact, and the role of constitutional t…
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Past, Present and Future
After the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ('UDHR'), which included a relatively full catalogue of human rights, the UN General Assembly instructed the Commission on Human Rights to commence the drafting of a single covenant on human rights. While the drafting of a treaty covering civil and political rights was completed in short time, disagreement over whether to include economic, social and cultural rights led the E…
Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law
In the space of two decades, social rights have emerged from the shadows and margins of human rights jurisprudence. The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions. The breadth of the decisions is vast, from the resettlement of evictees to the regulation of private medical plans to the development of state programs to address poverty and …
The Justiciability of Resource Allocation
A perennial problem in public law is how courts ought to deal with legal challenges to the allocation of public resources. This article explains and renders more coherent the varied approaches of English courts to the justiciability of resource allocation disputes in administrative and tort law. It draws a distinction between ‘discretionary allocative decision‐making’ and ‘allocative impact.’ The non‐justiciability doctrine in R v Cambridge Healt…
Constitutional Rights and Social Welfare: A Comment on the Canadian Chaoulli Health Care Decision
Chaoulli v Quebec (A.G . ) 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. The decision could lead to fundamental structural changes in the way Canadian provinces deliver health care services. Given the importance of C…
Hammarskjöld and Human Rights: The Deflation of the UN Human Rights Programme 1953-1961
following the resignation of Trygve Lie. He was ultimately elected as a compromise candidate about whom little was known. 1 An economist, he had been Swedish Under-Secretary for Finance (1935-1947), before moving to the Foreign Affairs Ministry. His nominators felt he would prove a restrained and sound administrator, preferable to an outspoken politicalleader. 2 The Americans, who bluntly asked "Who is this guy?", 3 set out to gather a dossier of…
Acequias, Small Farms, and the Good Life
Where the Two Came to Their Father: A Navajo War Ceremonial Given by Jeff King
This work takes its title from the richly symbolic creation legend of the Navaho people, which they incorporated into their blessing ceremony for tribe members headed to battle. Having observed this rite during World War II, when native Americans were for the first time drafted into the U.S. military, ethnologist Maud Oakes recorded the legend and made reproductions of the beautiful ceremonial paintings, given to her by the medicine man Jeff King…
A spirituality for the long haul: Response to chronic illness
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A spirituality for the long haul: Response to chronic illness
Where the Two Came to Their Father: A Navajo War Ceremonial Given by Jeff King
This work takes its title from the richly symbolic creation legend of the Navaho people, which they incorporated into their blessing ceremony for tribe members headed to battle. Having observed this rite during World War II, when native Americans were for the first time drafted into the U.S. military, ethnologist Maud Oakes recorded the legend and made reproductions of the beautiful ceremonial paintings, given to her by the medicine man Jeff King…
Acequias, Small Farms, and the Good Life
Hammarskjöld and Human Rights: The Deflation of the UN Human Rights Programme 1953-1961
following the resignation of Trygve Lie. He was ultimately elected as a compromise candidate about whom little was known. 1 An economist, he had been Swedish Under-Secretary for Finance (1935-1947), before moving to the Foreign Affairs Ministry. His nominators felt he would prove a restrained and sound administrator, preferable to an outspoken politicalleader. 2 The Americans, who bluntly asked "Who is this guy?", 3 set out to gather a dossier of…
Constitutional Rights and Social Welfare: A Comment on the Canadian Chaoulli Health Care Decision
Chaoulli v Quebec (A.G . ) 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. The decision could lead to fundamental structural changes in the way Canadian provinces deliver health care services. Given the importance of C…
The Justiciability of Resource Allocation
A perennial problem in public law is how courts ought to deal with legal challenges to the allocation of public resources. This article explains and renders more coherent the varied approaches of English courts to the justiciability of resource allocation disputes in administrative and tort law. It draws a distinction between ‘discretionary allocative decision‐making’ and ‘allocative impact.’ The non‐justiciability doctrine in R v Cambridge Healt…
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Past, Present and Future
After the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ('UDHR'), which included a relatively full catalogue of human rights, the UN General Assembly instructed the Commission on Human Rights to commence the drafting of a single covenant on human rights. While the drafting of a treaty covering civil and political rights was completed in short time, disagreement over whether to include economic, social and cultural rights led the E…
Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law
In the space of two decades, social rights have emerged from the shadows and margins of human rights jurisprudence. The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions. The breadth of the decisions is vast, from the resettlement of evictees to the regulation of private medical plans to the development of state programs to address poverty and …
Democratic Legitimacy
Judging Social Rights
Countries that now contemplate constitutional reform often grapple with the question of whether to constitutionalise social rights. This book presents an argument for why, under the right conditions, doing so can be a good way to advance social justice. In making such a case, the author considers the nature of the social minimum, the role of courts among other institutions, the empirical record of judicial impact, and the role of constitutional t…
The Democratic Case for a Written Constitution
Written constitutions have often been viewed as a bridle for unchecked political majoritarianism, as a restraint on government, and hence as a limiting device rather than form of democratic political expression. Breaking with that tradition, this article sets out a democratic case for a written constitution and contrasts it with the rights-based and clarity-based cases. It then proceeds to show why the case against written constitutions – which i…
Responsible citizens of responsible states
Avia Pasternak’s book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of citizen responsibility for historical wrongs. This review nevertheless offers some scepticism about resting citizen liability exclusively on the idea of intentional participation. It argues that the necessity of the state possessing continuing legal responsibility over time is so intrinsic to the function of statehood that the question of citizen liability should be se…
Law and power in the age of emergencies: A global study
The COVID-19 pandemic killed over eighteen million people worldwide and occasioned the most invasive mobility restrictions most nations have ever witnessed. In global discussions about state responses to the pandemic - both learned and popular - two familiar views of the role of the state frequently emerged. The ‘Leviathan argument’ bemoaned the impotence of courts and legislatures to control the ‘hyper-executive’ state. The ‘Ciceronian argument’…
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