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Law and Unmet Social Needs

How does, and how should, social theory conceive of the basic human needs (“BHN”) of the worst-off in society? How should these conceptions be translated into the language of constitutional law? The paper will investigate the analytical concerns of BHN and address six key concerns. First, how should social theory define 'needs'? Second, how should state officials identify, map, and respond to these needs? Third, how may transnational intergovernmental networks impinge on national spheres of public policy in regarding to meeting BHN? Fourth, on what basis may public power be distributed for meeting BHN? Fifth, should the appellate judiciary concern itself with the tasks of protection of rights rather than extend its powers to identification and meeting BHN? Sixth, when BHN remain unmet for long stretches of time, could violent social action represent itself as a long term agency for rectification of public indifference towards meeting unmet BHN?