In Article 25 (1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations recognized in 1948 the basic human right to “security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond ... control.” This paper...

As multilateral development banks increasingly gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social movements pushed to hold them accountable for their human rights impact towards communities. Leon Valentin Schettler presents a novel causal mechanism of movement advocacy towards...

We analyze the effect of state visits by the Catholic pope on human rights in the host country to understand how a small theocracy like the Vatican can exert disproportionate political influence in international politics. Our theoretical model of the strategic interaction between the Catholic...

We analyze the effect of state visits by the Catholic pope on human rights in the host country to understand how a small theocracy like the Vatican can exert disproportionate political influence in international politics. Our theoretical model of the strategic interaction between the Catholic...

The European Commission is planning a new regulation for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (Due Diligence Directive) as part of the Sustainable Corporate Governance initiative. The longawaited EU proposal is expected to have requirements that go far beyond the German Act on...

The world is currently at an ebb for realizing the Right to Development (RtD). Weakening of multilateralism, de-globalization, the scars left by the COVID-19 pandemic, misinterpretation and dilution of the RtD, and inertia to reform international governance are among the multitude of reasons for...

Basic income has been a prominent policy proposal from a range of quarters in the context of uncertainty over the future of work and the problem of growing economic inequality. More recently it is being considered in some countries as a possible response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19...

There is large variation across countries of origin in the gender composition of migrants coming to Germany. We argue that women’s economic rights in developing countries of origin have three effects on their migration prospects to a place like Germany that is far away and difficult to reach....

The article assesses the phenomenon of “de-humanization” of human rights with respect to two highly contrasting examples: “corporate human rights” and the “Rights of Nature” movement. It analyses the approaches regional human rights courts and regional courts of economic integration...

This paper provides an overview of the regulatory responses to Covid-19 from the regulatory authorities of Brazilian states. The aim of this paper is to provide new insights into the operationalization of the human rights to water and sanitation in the Brazilian regulatory authorities’ actions...

Are human rights to be found in living instruments and practices that adapt to changing circumstances, or must they be interpreted according to their original meaning? That question, so heavily debated in the context of the rights of the U.S. Constitution, was never seriously on the table until...

The former administration of Donald J. Trump shattered norms governing the responsibility to relay accurate, truthful information to the public. Whether regarding trivialities or vital issues of the day, the “Trump Doctrine” unleashed a global torrent of damaging misinformation and...

This research is a critical assessment of the United Nations’ Guidelines on Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence with respect to prior attempts to damage corporations using Corporate Social Responsibility. As the history of human rights violations shows, the impact of the United Nations was...

Individualism is associated with an emphasis on personal liberty and self-determination, values that reduce support for patriarchal values and increase gender equality. Here, we investigate whether individualism affects women’s economics rights, a key institutional determinant of the economic...

The discussion on the need for mandatory human rights due diligence (HRDD) requirements has permeated the interests of policy makers, civil society organizations and international organizations. The current trend on the adoption of domestic legislation concerning HRDD standards shows a variety...

The article deals with the question of whether and why corporations are human rights subjects by analysing the different approaches of regional economic courts and regional human rights courts. For some of these courts, protecting corporate human rights is the natural response to the key role...

Tea workers in Bangladesh, a workforce created by the indentured labor system under British colonialism and whose exploitation is maintained by existing laws, have been mobilizing against the threatened seizure of the land that they cultivate for sustenance in order to create a special economic...

Trade regulation may never have been in more flux than it is nowadays. Apart from the emergence of ‘megaregionals’ (more recently, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership – RCEP, or the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-pacific Partnership–CPTPP) and the difficulties in...

The relationship between intellectual property and human rights in the cultural heritage context is both complex and challenging. Although these two sets of rights frequently align, they also compete against each other. The resulting tensions and conflicts affect not only the relevant cultural...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is foremost viewed as a technologically revolutionary tool, however, the author discusses here whether it is in fact a tool for socio-economic and legal conservatism, because its training data is always embedded in the past. The aim of this paper is to explain,...

This paper discusses an effort of creative lawyering to enable business clients to prevent and mitigate human rights abuse in their supply chains. Specifically, a Working Group of the Business Section of the American Bar Association has drafted suggested clauses for supply chain contracts...

How can we measure justice? Are there tensions between an instrumental and an intrinsic conception of justice? These questions are currently being debated within the World Bank, an international development agency founded in 1946 under a mandate of poverty reduction. On May 15-16, 2006, members...

This is a pre-publication draft of my contribution to a symposium in the Emory Law Journal honoring the extraordinary scholarly career of Michael J. Perry. In it I address some of the difficulties presenting themselves in contemporary literature on human rights. It is widely acknowledged that...

This article examines the decision of nations to enter reservations upon ratification of international human rights treaties. Reservations, I suggest, merely attempt to avoid international legal duties when they would be relevant in the framework of the human rights regime. I chose Iraq as an...

In the past few years, different laws have been discussed and adopted in Europe aiming to strengthen corporate accountability in the areas of human rights and environmental protection. This article provides an overview of these developments, and identifies trends and debates related to mandatory...

The human rights related issues arising from oil exploration and exploitation in Nigeria has gained momentum. This mainly arises from the activities of multinational corporations operating in the Niger Delta region of the country. This paper examines the human right violations posed by various...

As with the proliferation of investor-state treaty arbitration, international investment law has been increasingly caught in a “legitimacy” crisis, with concerns looming large over resultant disruptive effects on human rights. Amid existing scholarship seeking to recalibrate the balance...

Human rights concerns are hardly integrated in investment decisions. That is a missed opportunity given investors’ crucial role in putting pressure on corporations to produce better information on adverse human rights impacts and addressing these impacts. This article investigates why human...

This paper explores U.S. government activities related to human experimentation after World War II. We emphasize how a proactive foreign policy, even in the pursuit of liberal ends, can undermine the rights and liberties of members the domestic populace. The typical primary justification for a...