1st Edition
Challenging Territoriality in Human Rights Law Building Blocks for a Plural and Diverse Duty-Bearer Regime
1. Introduction: An Emerging Multi-Duty Bearer Human Rights Regime?, Wouter Vandenhole and Willem van Genugten Part 1- Emerging Frameworks for Human Rights Obligations of New Duty-bearers 2. Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations: Wider Implications of the Maastricht Principles and the Continuing Accountability Challenge, Ashfaq Khalfan & Ian Seiderman 3. The World Bank Group, the IMF and Human Rights: about Direct Obligations and the Attribution of Unlawful Conduct, Willem Van Genugten 4. Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights: Towards a Pluralist Approach, Jernej Letnar Černič 5. Litigating Transnational Human Rights Obligations, Mark Gibney Part 2 – Towards Foundational Principles for a Globalized Duty-bearer Human Rights Regime 6. Obligations and Responsibility in a Plural and Diverse Duty-bearer Human Rights Regime, Wouter Vandenhole 7. Transnational Legal Responsibility: Some Preliminaries, George Pavlakos 8. The Common Interest in International Law: Implications for Human Rights, Koen De Feyter 9. You Say you Want a Revolution: Challenges of Market Primacy for the Human Rights Project, Margot E. Salomon
Biography
Wouter Vandenhole teaches human rights and holds the UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He chairs the Law and Development Research Group of his Faculty, and the European Research Networking Programme GLOTHRO (Beyond Territoriality: Globalization and Transnational Human Rights Obligations). Vandenhole sits on the editorial board of Human Rights and International Legal Discourse and of the Journal of Human Rights Practice. He has researched and published widely on economic, social and cultural rights, children’s rights and transnational human rights obligations. Key publications on transnational human rights obligations include: ‘Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations: Taking Stock, Looking Forward’ (2013) European Journal of Human Rights; M. Gibney and W. Vandenhole (eds), Litigating Transnational Human Rights Obligations: Alternative Judgments, Routledge Research in Human Rights Law (Routedge 2014); and M. Langford, W. Vandenhole, M. Scheinin and W. van Genugten (eds), Global Justice, State Duties. The Extraterritorial Scope of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law (CUP 2013).
