This post focuses on social justice in the realm of work, more specifically on access to jobs and livelihoods. Daniela Caruso, in proposing in 2013 a retrospective analysis of social justice scholarly projects in European ‘private law’ and/or ‘contract law’, rightly criticized the tendency of those projects to focus almost exclusively on consumer protection and weaker parties in commercial transactions. Caruso argued that this focus was particularly misguided in the wake of the economic crises of the 2010s; the European social-justice private law project should now pay attention to ‘contracts that secure housing, employment and access to credit’ instead of focusing so much on contracts over ‘on-line shopping’ … (more)
[Pascal McDougall, Transformative Private Law Blog, 16 October 2024.
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