Browsing School of Law (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Kenna, Padraic"

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    • Can housing rights be applied to modern housing systems? 

      Kenna, Padraic (Emerald, 2010-05)
      Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to outline and examine the growing corpus of housing rights and assess their relevance and applicability to complex contemporary housing systems across the world. Design/methodo ...

    • Can international housing rights based on public international law really impact on contemporary housing systems? 

      Kenna, Padraic (Ashgate, 2010-12)
      The concept of home advances a new basis for evaluating housing rights, emphasising their human and personal benefits. Housing rights address, at a national, regional and global level, displacement and dispossession, as ...

    • Globalization and housing rights 

      Kenna, Padraic (Indiana University Press, 2008-06)
      This article seeks to explore the relationship between the growing phenomenon of globalization and the field of housing rights. I begin with a general description of globalization, and move on to discuss its effect on ...

    • The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009. 

      Kenna, Padraic (Roundhall Sweet & Maxwell, 2010-06)
      The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (the 2009 Act)has updated and expanded many areas of social housing law. This takes place as the significance of social housing rises immeasurably within the financial rescue ...

    • Housing and human rights 

      Kenna, Padraic (Elsevier, 2011)
      Housing meets a primary human need and housing rights are now enshrined housing rights within international human rights law, regional and constitutional legal instruments. These rights extend beyond shelter, and encompass ...

    • Housing rights - the new benchmarks for housing policy in Europe? 

      Kenna, Padraic (American Bar Association, 2005-11)
      Rights to housing are regularly proposed as the solution to poor housing and homelessness by advocates and campaigning organizations. This approach is viewed as having the critical international acclaim and legal clarity ...

    • Housing rights and human rights 

      Kenna, Padraic (FEANTSA, 2005)

    • Housing rights in Ireland. 

      Kenna, Padraic (Kluwer, 2003)
      Ireland has been the world leader in house price inflation since 1996, and has reached the highest level of home ownership among the OECD countries.1 Irish government housing policy has given the market a primary role in ...

    • Housing rights: positive duties and enforceable rights at the European Court of Human Rights. 

      Kenna, Padraic (Sweet & Maxwell, 2008)
      Discusses the European Court of Human Rights' development of a human rights perspective on positive obligations in the context of housing. Traces the move from traditional liberal concepts of negative rights, the influence ...

    • International instruments on housing rights 

      Kenna, Padraic (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)
      Housing rights can act to guarantee minimum housing provision for poor and deprived persons, based on respect for human dignity. These rights are now established within many international public law instruments and treaties, ...

    • Land law, property, housing and the environment. 

      Kenna, Padraic (Jordan Publishing Ltd, 2009)
      This chapter considers the possible impact of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003 (ECHR Act) on Irish law in selected areas of land and property, planning, housing and environment law1 - areas associated ...

    • Local authorities and the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003 

      Kenna, Padraic (Clarus Press, 2010)
      This article discusses the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003 (ECHR Act) on local authorities in Ireland. The Act creates a new framework for the representative, regulatory, agency and service ...

    • Towards a common standard of protection of the right to housing in Europe through the charter of fundamental rights 

      Kenna, Padraic; Simón‐Moreno, Héctor (Wiley, 2019-12-17)
      The trend towards the financialisation of housing since the 1980s and the global financial crisis exposed a dramatic lacuna in the legal protection of the right to housing. Yet, the right to housing features not only in ...