Justice in the United States Human Rights and the Constitution

All populations, including people living in the United States experience new vulnerabilities with globalization. Peoples' jobs are threatened; there are pressures to migrate; and environmental degradation is epidemic. Immense wealth is concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite. Other countries have revised their constitutions to protect their citizens from these turbulent forces. The US is a major exception, and this book proposes how Americans might think about constitutional revisions.

Alberto Moncada is President of Sociologists without Borders. He has been a professor at the University of Madrid and Stanford University. Judith Blau is professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina and chair of the interdisciplinary program in Social and Economic Justice.