Non-State Actors and Human Rights

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-927282-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Reihe: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law

Responsibility of Non-State Actors is one of the biggest and most critical challenges facing international law today
- Covers the role of important non-governmental institutions including the IMF and the WTO
- Assesses the challenge posed by the behaviour of transnational corporations

Contents
- Part I: Introduction
- 1 Philip Alston: The 'Not-a-Cat' Syndrome: Can the International Human Rights Regime Accommodate Non-State Actors?
- 2 August Reinisch: The Changing International Legal Framework for Dealing with Non-State Actors
- Part II: Non-Governmental Organizations and International Organizations as Non-State Actors
- 3 Menno T. Kamminga: The Evolving Status of NGOs under International Law: A Threat to the Inter-State System?
- 4 François Gianviti: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the International Monetary Fund
- Part III: Corporations
- 5 Celia Wells and Juanita Elias: Catching the Conscience of the King: Corporate Players on the International Stage
- 6 Ralph Steinhardt: Corporate Responsibility and the International Law of Human Rights: The New Lex Mercatoria
- 7 Olivier de Schutter: The Accountability of Multinationals for Human Rights Violations in European Law
- 8 David Weissbrodt and Muria Kruger: Human Rights Responsibilities of Businesses as None-State Actors
- Mary Rumsey: Bibliography on Non-State Actors in International Law

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students of human rights and of international law

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alston, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Alston is Professor of Law at New York University Law School.