Global justice, state duties : the extraterritorial scope of economic, social, and cultural rights in international law / edited by Malcolm Langford. [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Langford, Malcolm, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights.

Human rights.

Social rights.

Sovereignty.

Exterritoriality.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 477 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The rise of globalization and the persistence of global poverty are straining the territorial paradigm of human rights. This book asks if states possess extraterritorial obligations under existing international human rights law to respect and ensure economic, social and cultural rights and how far those duties extend. Taking a departure point in theory and practice, the book is the first of its kind to analyze the principal cross-cutting legal issues at stake: the legal status of obligations, jurisdiction, causation, division of responsibility, and remedies and accountability. The book focuses specifically on the role of states but also addresses their duties to regulate powerful nonstate actors. The authors demonstrate that many key issues have been resolved or clarified in international law while others remain controversial or await the development of further practice, particularly the scope of jurisdiction and the quantitative dimension of extraterritorial obligations to fulfil.

Contents:

On terminology : extraterritorial obligation / Mark gibney

Extraterritorial duties in international law / Malcolm Langford, Fons Coomans, and Felipe Gómex Isa

International financial institutions, transnational corporations and duties of states / Smita Narula

Extraterritorial human rights and the concept of 'jurisdiction' / Maarten den Heijer and Rick Lawson

Jurisdiction : towards a reasonableness test / Cedric Ryngaert

Just another word? : Jurisdiction in the roadmaps of state responsibility and human rights / Martin Scheinin

Causality and extraterritorial human rights obligations / Sigrun I. Skogly

Deprivation, causation and the law of international cooperation / Margot E. Salomon

Division of responsibility amongst states / Ashfaq Khalfan

Extraterritorial human rights obligations and the North-South divide / Wouter Vandenhole and Wolfgang Benedek

Remedies and reparation / Dinah Shelton

Accountability mechanisms / Ashfaw Khalfan

Moral theory, international law and global justice / Malcolm Langford and Mac Darrow.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781139002974

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