Challenging territoriality in human rights law : building blocks for a plural and diverse duty-bearer regime
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Challenging territoriality in human rights law : building blocks for a plural and diverse duty-bearer regime
(Routledge research in human rights law)
Routledge, 2015
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Human rights have traditionally been framed in a vertical perspective with the duties of States confined to their own citizens or residents. Interpretations of international human rights treaties tend either to ignore or downplay obligations beyond this 'territorial space'. This edited volume challenges the territorial bias of mainstream human rights law. It argues that with increased globalisation and the impact of international corporations, organisations and non-State actors, human rights law will become less relevant if it fails to adapt to changing realities in which States are no longer the only leading actor.
Bringing together leading scholars in the field, the book explores potential applications of international human rights law in a multi-duty bearer setting. The first part of the book examines the current state of the human rights obligations of foreign States, corporations and international financial institutions, looking in particular at the ways in which they address questions of attribution and distribution of obligations and responsibility. The second part is geared towards the identification of common principles that may underpin a human rights legal regime that incorporates obligations of foreign States as well as of non-State actors.
As a marker of important progress in understanding what lies ahead for integrating foreign States and non-State actors in the human rights dutybearer regime, this book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners of international human rights law, public international law and international relations.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: An Emerging Multi-Duty Bearer Human Rights Regime?, Wouter Vandenhole and Willem van Genugten Part 1- Emerging Frameworks for Human Rights Obligations of New Duty-bearers 2. Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations: Wider Implications of the Maastricht Principles and the Continuing Accountability Challenge, Ashfaq Khalfan & Ian Seiderman 3. The World Bank Group, the IMF and Human Rights: about Direct Obligations and the Attribution of Unlawful Conduct, Willem Van Genugten 4. Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights: Towards a Pluralist Approach, Jernej Letnar Cernic 5. Litigating Transnational Human Rights Obligations, Mark Gibney Part 2 - Towards Foundational Principles for a Globalized Duty-bearer Human Rights Regime 6. Obligations and Responsibility in a Plural and Diverse Duty-bearer Human Rights Regime, Wouter Vandenhole 7. Transnational Legal Responsibility: Some Preliminaries, George Pavlakos 8. The Common Interest in International Law: Implications for Human Rights, Koen De Feyter 9. You Say you Want a Revolution: Challenges of Market Primacy for the Human Rights Project, Margot E. Salomon
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