Human Rights Brief: Aryeh Neier's "Social and Economic Rights: A Critique"
Read this article. Neier clearly and succinctly argues that the only meaningful way to discuss human rights is in the context of a contractual relationship between an individual and his or her state or community. The lynchpin of this argument is that rights must be enforceable; therefore, the judicial process becomes central to the protection and promotion of human rights.
Click http://web.archive.org/web/20160122002455/https://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/13/2neier.pdf link to open resource.