Tushnet puts flesh on the bones of the claim that constitutionally guaranteed social rights judicially enforced are already a part of the jurisprudence of the United States and other countries of interest He takes this argument some distance beyond where any other scholar has taken it so far as I know and he does so with considerable refinement This book gives a full and strong manifestation of the style intelligence and learning that have earned Tushnet his eminence as a scholar of American constitutional law and comparative constitutionalism Frank I Michelman Harvard Law School
