Boundaries of State, Boundaries of Rights

Tsvi Kahana is Associate Professor at Queen's University, Ontario. Anat Scolnicov is Professor of Law at the University of Winchester.

• Introduction Tsvi Kahana and Anat Scolnicov; 1. Our rights, but whose duties? Re-conceptualizing rights in the era of globalization Jean Thomas; 2. On suffering and societal constitutionalism: at the border of international investment and arbitration David Schneiderman; 3. Beware: boundary crossings José E. Alvarez; 4. Dialogue and constitutional duty Mark Tushnet; 5. Positive obligations, positive rights and constitutional amendment Vicki C. Jackson; 6. Privatizing public rights: common law and state action in the United States Helen Hershkoff; 7. Abdications of sovereignty in state action and horizontal effect jurisprudence Johan van der Walt; 8. Hybrid state accountability and hybrid rights: positive rights, exclusion, and state action in Canada Tsvi Kahana; 9. Human rights and derivative rights: the European Convention on Human Rights and the rights of corporations Anat Scolnicov; 10. Judicial review and Human Rights Act review in contracted-out public services: options for litigation in English law A. C. L. Davies; 11. Privatization and human rights in the United Kingdom Stephanie Palmer; 12. Principles of public fiduciary administration Paul B. Miller; 13. Human rights indicators and boundaries of accountability and opportunity Megan Dersnah and Ron Levi.