Economic Globalisation and Human Rights

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.

• 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.