Global justice, state duties : The extraterritorial scope of economic, social and cultural rights in international law
(2012)- Abstract
The rise of globalisation and the persistence of global poverty are straining the territorial paradigm of human rights. This book asks whether States possess extraterritorial obligations under existing international human rights law to respect and ensure economic, social and cultural rights and how far those duties extend. Taking a departure point in theory and practice, the book is the first of its kind to analyse the principal cross-cutting legal issues at stake: the legal status of obligations, jurisdiction, causation, division of responsibility and remedies and accountability. The book focuses specifically on the role of States but also addresses their duties to regulate powerful non-State actors. The authors demonstrate that many... (More)
The rise of globalisation and the persistence of global poverty are straining the territorial paradigm of human rights. This book asks whether States possess extraterritorial obligations under existing international human rights law to respect and ensure economic, social and cultural rights and how far those duties extend. Taking a departure point in theory and practice, the book is the first of its kind to analyse the principal cross-cutting legal issues at stake: the legal status of obligations, jurisdiction, causation, division of responsibility and remedies and accountability. The book focuses specifically on the role of States but also addresses their duties to regulate powerful non-State actors. The authors demonstrate that many key issues have been resolved or clarified in international law, whereas others remain controversial or await the development of further practice, particularly the scope of jurisdiction and the quantitative dimension of extraterritorial obligations to fulfill.
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- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Book/Report
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Public international law, Folkrätt
- editor
- Langford, Malcolm
; Vandenhole, Wouter
; Scheinin, Martin
LU
and Van Genugten, Willem
- pages
- 477 pages
- publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:84924673972
- ISBN
- 9781107012776
- 9781139002974
- DOI
- 10.1017/CBO9781139002974
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- c4be6016-c1ff-44eb-8ad1-d0c27823d150
- date added to LUP
- 2025-05-20 13:29:36
- date last changed
- 2025-07-02 01:02:52
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abstract = {{<p>The rise of globalisation and the persistence of global poverty are straining the territorial paradigm of human rights. This book asks whether States possess extraterritorial obligations under existing international human rights law to respect and ensure economic, social and cultural rights and how far those duties extend. Taking a departure point in theory and practice, the book is the first of its kind to analyse the principal cross-cutting legal issues at stake: the legal status of obligations, jurisdiction, causation, division of responsibility and remedies and accountability. The book focuses specifically on the role of States but also addresses their duties to regulate powerful non-State actors. The authors demonstrate that many key issues have been resolved or clarified in international law, whereas others remain controversial or await the development of further practice, particularly the scope of jurisdiction and the quantitative dimension of extraterritorial obligations to fulfill.</p>}},
editor = {{Langford, Malcolm and Vandenhole, Wouter and Scheinin, Martin and Van Genugten, Willem}},
isbn = {{9781107012776}},
keywords = {{Public international law; Folkrätt}},
language = {{eng}},
publisher = {{Cambridge University Press}},
title = {{Global justice, state duties : The extraterritorial scope of economic, social and cultural rights in international law}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139002974}},
doi = {{10.1017/CBO9781139002974}},
year = {{2012}},
}