Human Rights Impact of the World Trade Organisation

James Harrison is Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. He was previously the Head of the Trade, Business and Human Rights Unit and Research and Programmes Co-ordinator at the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre. Dr Harrison has also worked as a consultant for a number of international organisations including; for the Council of Europe on fair trade and ethical finance issues; for the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights on human rights approaches to the World Trade Organisation (WTO); for Article 19, on corporate transparency policies and for Amnesty International on the human rights impact of the international trading system. He previously worked as a researcher at the human rights organisation Liberty, before qualifying as a solicitor at Bindman and Partners, one of the leading human rights law firms in the UK. He then completed his PhD at the European Institute in Florence.

• PART 1 Key Conceptual Issues of the International Trade Law and International Human Rights Systems1 The Justice Dimension of the WTO2 A Human Rights Methodology for Analysis3 The Rationale for a Human Rights Methodology in the WTO ContextPART 2 Key Legal Issues in Assessing the Human Rights Impact of the WTO4 A Legal Framework for the Analysis of the Human Rights Impacts of the WTO5 Some Background Issues on Conditionality-Based Measures6 Conditionality-Based Measures in Multilateral Frameworks7 Unilateral Conditionality-Based Measures8 A Legal Framework for Assessing Compliance and Cooperation-Based Measures9 A Case Study of Compliance and Cooperation-Based Measures: The TRIPS Agreement and the Access to Essential Medicines PART 3 Future Strategies for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in the International Trade Law Context10 Reappraising the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in the WTO11 Raising Explicit Human Rights Arguments in WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings12 Broader Strategies for Ensuring Trade Law Rules do not Negatively Impact upon Human RightsConcluding Remarks

'The Human Rights Impact of the World Trade Organisation...is the first full length scholarly monograph on the topic of trade and human rights...the literature on trade and human rights is still in the process of searching for a secure conceptual and theoretical footing, and it is one of the achievements of Harrison's work that he helps to move that process in a number of significant ways...the (quasi) draft Declaration on trade and human rights which Harrison offers in the concluding pages of Chapter 12 is admirably ambitious and could serve as a useful point of departure for future political activity. In many ways, it performs the same function in a few paragraphs that the book itself does on a larger scale: crystallising and clarifying some of the core normative claims at play in the trade and human rights debate, and encouraging us to think creatively about the institutional processes and other mechanisms by which 'social justice' concerns about the international trading system can be addressed.' Andrew Lang The Modern Law Review (2008) 71(4) The work is excellent in merging complex theoretical issues surrounding human rights norms and real-world situations and cases of globalization and increasing trade liberalization and integration. Wesley T. Milner Law and Politics Book Review Vol. 18 No.4 (April 2008) ...a welcome addition to the growing literature in this field...Harrison not only provides a balanced and thoughtful analysis of the issues at the intersection of the international trade and human rights regimes, but he also provides pragmatic suggestions that can and should be built upon by both international institutions, national governments, and NGOs alike. Tracey Epps New Zealand Law Journal June 2008