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Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in the scale and importance of economic, social, and cultural rights (ESC rights) within international law, culminating in the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in December 2008, which gave individuals and groups the ability to bring complaints about rights violations before the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In this context, this book centres on the question of how the fundamental socio-economic human rights that are enshrined in international law are defined, interpreted, understood, and implemented. It assesses how effective efforts have been in realising ESC rights by investigating the contemporary challenges obstructing their protection. It investigates the impact of the global financial crisis and austerity measures, the human rights responsibilities of corporations, and the trends in the justiciability of those rights at the national and international level. The interrelationship between ESC rights and other legal regimes such as international economic law, trade and investment law, environmental law, international criminal law, or international humanitarian law is also thoroughly examined. It provides a careful analysis of the new tools and indicators available to measure the progressive realisation of ESC rights. This book clarifies and illuminates multiple aspects of the law governing ESC rights by bringing together the different aspects of ESC rights, restating the challenges they face, and assessing the progress that has been made in expanding their adoption. After an introduction by the editors on ESC rights and the contemporary issues that impact their realisation, the book contains seventeen further essays on the main questions which couch the progressive realisation of ESC rights and their monitoring mechanisms. The authors of the chapters, both scholars and practitioners, adopt interdisciplinary approaches that move beyond traditional analyses of ESC rights, contextualising their discussions through wider contemporary international law challenges. In reflecting this diversity of perspectives, this book sheds light on new methodologies for the implementation of ESC rights as well as the various obstacles they face.

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Author:   Eibe Riedel (Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Public Law, and European and International Law, University of Mannheim) ,  Gilles Giacca (Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross) ,  Christophe Golay (Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.974kg
ISBN:  

9780199685974

ISBN 10:   0199685975
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   13 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Introduction 1: Gilles Giacca, Christophe Golay, and Eibe Riedel: The Development of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law II. Challenges in the Protection of ESC Rights in Times of Crisis 2: Mary Dowell-Jones: The Sovereign Bond Markets and Socio-Economic Rights: Understanding the Challenge of Austerity 3: Sally-Anne Way, Nicholas Lusiani, and Ignacio Saiz: Economic and Social Rights in the 'Great Recession': Towards a Human Rights-Centered Economic Policy in Times of Crisis 4: Sandra Ratjen and Manav Satija: Realising Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights for All 5: Christine Chinkin: Gender and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights III. International Dimension of ESC Rights Obligations 6: Takhima Karimova: The Nature and Meaning of 'International Assistance and Cooperation' under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 7: Olivier De Schutter: Corporations and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights IV. The Relationship between ESC Rights and Other Legal Regimes 8: Hans Morten Haugen: Trade and Investment Agreements: What Role for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in international Economic Law? 9: Holger P. Hestermayer: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in the World Trade Organization: Legal Aspects and Practice 10: Stephanie Chuffart and Jorge E. Vinuales: From the Other Shore: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights from an International Environmental Law Perspective 11: Gilles Giacca: The Relationship between Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and International Humanitarian Law 12: Larissa van den Herik: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: International Criminal Law's Blind Spot? V. New Concepts and Tools to Measure the Progressive Realization of ESC Rights 13: Aoife Nolan: Budget Analysis and Economic and Social Rights 14: Simon Walker: Human Rights Impact Assessments: Emerging Practice and Challenges VI. Trends in the Justiciability and Monitoring of ESC Rights at the National and International Level 15: Malcolm Langford: Judicial Review in National Courts: Recognition and Responsiveness 16: Ioana Cismas: The Intersection of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and Civil and Political Rights 17: Allison Corkery and Duncan Wilson: Building Bridges: National Human Rights Institutions and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 18: Frannk Halderman and Rachelle Kouassi: Transitional Justice Without Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights?

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Eibe Riedel is Emeritus Chair of German and Comparative Public Law and European and International Law at the University of Mannheim, Germany, Swiss Human Rights Chair at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva. He studied law and theology at King's College London, and law at the University of Kiel. He obtained his Dr. iuris in 1974 and Dr. iur. habil. in 1983. He has been a Professor of Public Law and International Law at the University of Mainz, then at the University of Marburg, then at Mannheim. Prof. Riedel has recently been appointed a Judge at the Hague Court of Arbitration. He is a Director of the Inland Navigation Law Institute, and the Director of the Institute of Medical Law, Bioethics and Public Health. He was Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Mannheim from 1996-2000. Dr Gilles Giacca is a Research Fellow at the Law Faculty and Co-ordinator of the Oxford Martin School Human Rights for Future Generations programme. He holds a MA from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva and a LLM from the University of Essex and holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Geneva and IHEID. Between 2006 and 2012, Gilles Giacca was teaching assistant and then research fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law. Gilles has advised States, international organizations and NGOs on matters of international law. He has also provided training on international law to diplomats and practitioners. His teaching interests include the law of armed conflict and international human rights law. Dr Christophe Golay is Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. From 2001 to 2008, he was the Legal Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He teaches courses on ESC rights, the right to food, and human rights and development in different universities. He has published extensively on ESC rights in general and the right to food in particular.

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