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Corporations and Human Rights
Can human rights be enforced against corporations? This work analyses different enforcement mechanisms. It examines one of the most powerful instruments: the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) litigation in the United States. The ATCA has been used as one of the chief weapons in a 21st-century battle over corporate responsibility in the age of globalization. For instance, the ATCA has been invoked to seek compensation from German companies in respect of forced labor during the Holocaust. Further examples include claims relating to genocide against a Canadian company, forced labor claims against a US company and numerous others. The ATCA litigation often refers to the «law of nations», but do the US courts interpret this term consistently with other accepted interpretations of international law? The short answer to that question is 'no'. However, in the absence of enforceable international law mechanisms, this lacuna needs to be filled. Domestic litigation of matters that are inherently transnational in character, as occurs in ATCA human rights litigation, represents a viable mechanism to enforce human rights.
Contextual Development Economics
Poverty still persists in today’s low-income countries despite decades of international aid, and extensive research on the determinants of growth and development. The book argues that meeting this challenge requires a holistic understanding of the context-specific factors that influence economic behavior and structures in poor countries. Contextual Development Economics approaches this task by offering a methodology that allows analysing the dynamic interrelations between economic, cultural and historical determinants of economic life in low-income countries. The book starts with an empirical inquiry into the economic characteristics of low-income countries that create the context by which...
Applicability of International Humanitarian Law
Brings together three diverse perspectives on the law relating to armed conflict.
Responding to Modern Genocide
Developments in the understanding and treatment of genocide through the twentieth century have involved a combination of politics, public opinion, social trends, and economic development, and led to the substantive law of genocide and the assumption of international jurisdiction. This book analyzes incidences of genocide and mass atrocities, focusing on the political factors involved in modern counter-genocide efforts. Drawing on incidences of genocide and mass atrocity such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Armenian genocide, Mark Kielsgard adopts a conceptual model that reveals the political factors which impact the international law of genocide, such as barriers and catalysts to transitional justice and the politics of genocide denial. As a work which provides a focused picture of those influences and their significance to genocide studies, this book will be of great use and interest to students and researchers in international criminal law, conflict studies, and conflict resolution.
China's Influence on Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law
This volume examines the range of Non-Trade Concerns (NTCs) that may conflict with international economic rules and proposes ways to protect them within international law and international economic law. Globalization without local concerns can endanger relevant issues such as good governance, human rights, right to water, right to food, social, economic, cultural and environmental rights, labor rights, access to knowledge, public health, social welfare, consumer interests and animal welfare, climate change, energy, environmental protection and sustainable development, product safety, food safety and security. Focusing on China, the book shows the current trends of Chinese law and policy towa...
Research Handbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Transport Economics is a revised and refined fourth edition of a well-established textbook which applies economic analysis to transport issues. Each chapter has been carefully reworked and includes new material dealing with the regulation of transport markets. To assist in pedagogy, twenty or so free standing ‘Exhibits’ now provide a variety of case studies and narratives to supplement the text. More up-to-date examples and illustrations also make the understanding of economic principles easier and assist in the assimilation of economic concepts.
Business and Human Rights
This book analyses the accountability of European home States for their failure to secure the human rights of victims from host States against transnational enterprises. It argues for a reconfiguration of the relationship between multinational enterprises and individuals, both of which have been profoundly changed by globalisation. Enterprises are now supranational entities with numerous affiliates all over the world. Likewise, individuals are increasingly part of a global community. Despite this, the relationship between the two is deregulated. Addressing this gap, this study proposes an innovative business and human rights litigation strategy. Human rights advocates could file a test case against a European home State, at the European Court of Human Rights, for its failure to secure the rights of victims vis-à-vis European multinational enterprises. The book illustrates why such a strategy is needed, and points to the lack of effective legal remedies against European multinationals. The goal is to empower victims from developing countries against European States which are failing to hold multinational enterprises accountable for human rights abuses.
Emissionshandel und effektiver Rechtsschutz: ein unvereinbarer Gegensatz?
Der Emissionshandel sorgt seit seiner Einführung im Jahr 2005 bis heute für viel Furore in Rechtswissenschaft und -praxis. Diese Arbeit untersucht die Auswirkungen des marktwirtschaftlich basierten Emissionshandelssystems auf den ordnungsrechtlich fundierten Rechtsschutz aller betroffenen Personen. Besonderes Augenmerk legt die Untersuchung dabei auf Rechtsfragen des Übergangs von der ersten zur zweiten Handelsphase und auf die problemträchtigen Neuregelungen in der zweiten Zuteilungsperiode, insbesondere die Einführung der entgeltlichen Allokation und die Abschaffung der Zuteilungsgarantien. Über die wissenschaftliche Analyse der untersuchten Rechtsfragen hinaus formuliert die Arbeit auch praxistaugliche Lösungsvorschläge für die Rechtsanwendung.
Verfassungsrechtliche Grundlagen der Gemeindeverwaltung in Chile
Kommunale Selbstverwaltung und Dezentralisierung sind zwei Kernelemente eines modernen Staates, die von der Verfassung gewährleistet werden sollen. Es ist jedoch für viele Einheitsstaaten schwierig, einen Weg für ihre Durchsetzung zu finden, weil beide Kernelemente die Zentralisierung der Macht bekämpfen. Der Autor untersucht die verfassungsrechtlichen Grundlagen der Kommunalorganisation Chiles, um zu zeigen, wie die kommunale Selbstverwaltung und die Dezentralisierung in diesem Land funktionieren. Geprüft werden die Rolle der Gemeindeverwaltungen in der Staatsorganisation, das Wesen der Garantie der kommunalen Selbstverwaltung und die Durchsetzbarkeit der Verfassung.
Amtshaftung im bewaffneten Auslandseinsatz
Die Bundeswehr ist keine vierte Macht im Gefüge des Grundgesetzes und das moderne Völkerrecht ist nicht mehr das von vor 1945. Für moderne Auslandseinsätze unter internationaler Führung stellen sich alte Haftungsfragen neu. In dieser Arbeit geht es um die Frage, inwieweit das Grundgesetz selbst zu einer Haftung gegenüber dem einzelnen Kriegsgeschädigten verpflichtet. Der Autor widerlegt die überkommene These der Suspension der Amtshaftung durch das Kriegsrecht. Daneben legt er dar, dass das heutige ius in bello unmittelbar anwendbare individualschützende Primärnormen enthält. In einem dritten Schritt werden die Wechselwirkungen zwischen diesen Erkenntnissen analysiert. Am Ende steht eine Stellungnahme zur Praktikabilität des gegenwärtigen Rechtszustandes.
