The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions: Responding to Complex Global Challenges (Oñati International Series in Law and Society) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jessie Hohmann is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is an internationally recognised expert on the right to housing in international law. Her research also engages with the material culture, objects and materiality of international law, and with Indigenous Peoples and international law.
Jessie's 2013 monograph The Right to Housing: Law, Concepts, Possibilities (Hart) was shortlisted for the Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. Before joining UTS, she was Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary, University of London (2012-2019) and held a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (2009-2012).

Beth Goldblatt is Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia and Visiting Professor of the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She works in the areas of feminist legal theory, equality and discrimination law, comparative constitutional law, transitional justice, disability, family law, and human rights with a focus on economic and social rights, and the right to social security in particular.
Prior to joining UTS, she held positions at the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney and the University of the Witwatersrand. She is admitted as an attorney in South Africa and worked for many years on human rights litigation, research and advocacy at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand.