Wolfgang Benedek / Koen De Feyter / Fabrizio Marrella (eds.)

Economic Globalisation and Human Rights

Herausgeber: Benedek, Wolfgang; Marrella, Fabrizio; De Feyter, Koen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Economic globalisation is one of the guiding paradigms of the twenty-first century. The challenge it implies for human rights is fundamental, and key questions have up to now received no satisfying answers. How can human rights protect human dignity when economic globalisation has an adverse impact on local living conditions? How should human rights evolve in response to a global economy in which non-statal actors are decisive forces? Economic Globalisation and Human Rights sets out to assess these and other questions to ensure that, as economic globalization intensifies, human rights take up the central and crucial position that they deserve. Using a multidisciplinary methodology, leading scholars reflect on issues such as the need for global ethics, the localisation of human rights, the role of human rights in WTO law, and efforts to make international economic organisations more accountable and multinational corporations more socially responsible.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780521878869
• ISBN-10: 0521878861
• Artikelnr.: 22552841

Autorenporträt

Professor of International Law at the Institute of International Law and International Relations, University of Graz.
Lecturer in International Law at the Universiteit Maastricht and Lecturer in International Law and Politics at the University of Antwerp
A University Professor of Law at the School of Economics and Business, University of Venice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Koen De Feyter; Part I. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
Human Rights and Economic Globalisation: 1. Economic globalisation,
globalist stories of the state, and human rights Jernej Pikalo; 2. Towards
a theory of global ethics in support of human rights George Ulrich; 3.
Localising human rights Koen De Feyter; 4. Globalisation and social rights
Adalberto Perulli; Part II. The Relevance of Human Rights for International
Economic Organisations: 5. The World Trade Organization and human rights
Wolfgang Benedek; 6. Making trade policies more accountable and human
rights-consistent: a NGO perspective of using human rights Instruments in
the case of access to medicines Davinia Ovett; 7. The Bretton Woods
Institutions and human rights: converging tendencies Laurence Boisson de
Chazournes; Part III. International Corporate Accountability: 8.
Alternative perspectives on international responsibility for human rights
violations by multinational corporations Francesco Francioni; 9. Human
rights, arbitration, and corporate social responsibility in the law of
international trade Fabrizio Marrella; Part IV: 10. General conclusions
Wolfgang Benedek and Fabrizio Marrella.