Date: 2007
Type: Book
The human rights impact of the World Trade Organisation
Oxford ; Portland : Hart Publishing, 2007
HARRISON, James, The human rights impact of the World Trade Organisation, Oxford ; Portland : Hart Publishing, 2007
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/11768
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This book examines the impact of international trade rules on the promotion and protection of human rights, and explains why human rights are an important mechanism for assessing the social justice impact of the international trading system. The core of the book is an in depth analysis of the impact of international trade law rules on the protection and promotion of human rights, emphasising the significance of the jurisdictional context in which the human rights issues arise: coercive measures that are taken by one country to protect and promote human rights in another country are distinguished from measures taken by a country to protect and promote the human rights of its own population. The author contends that international trade law rules have utilised certain ad hoc mechanisms to deal with particularly pressing human rights concerns in the trade context, but also argues that these mechanisms do not provide systemic solutions to the inter-linkages between the two legal systems. The author therefore examines mechanisms by which human rights arguments could be more appropriately raised and adjudicated upon in WTO dispute settlement proceedings. He concludes by considering broader systemic issues outside the dispute settlement process that need to be addressed if trade law rules are to successfully protect and promote human rights.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/11768
ISBN: 9781841136936
ISSN: 184113693X
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/4654
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2005
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