Wilde: Human Rights Beyond Borders at the World Court
julio 18, 2014
Ralph Wilde ha publicado ‘Human Rights Beyond Borders at the World Court: The Significance of the International Court of Justice’s Jurisprudence on the Extraterritorial Application of International Human Rights Law Treaties’ Chinese Journal of International Law (2013) 12(4) 639-677. El artículo puede ser descargado libremente, porque se ha publicado con el formato «open access».
Research Associate at UCL: Human Rights Beyond Borders
julio 18, 2014
Professor Ralph Wilde (UCL) is recruiting a 3-year Research Associate position, starting in September, for a research assistant to help him on his project on the extraterritorial application of international human rights law. Here is the information. Good luck!
The Good Country Index
julio 14, 2014
Los lectores del blog conocen mi interés por los indicadores y su relación con el modo en que creamos y elaboramos las normas de nuestra sociedad (internacional). Este nuevo índice, the good country index, se debe a la iniciativa de Simon Anholt y se ocupa de la medida de bondad de los Estados. Es bienvenido, porque en general los indicadores, de una u otra forma, buscan señalar lo malo, como el índice de Estados fallidos, que ahora ha suavizado su nombre y se llama Indice de Estados Frágiles. No digo que estos últimos no sean útiles, pero quizá un cambio de perspectiva resulte más atractivo, persuasivo y asumible. Es como cuando uno habla de la huella ecológica y alguien le sugiere que su preocupación puede canalizarse mejor con la ayuda de handprinter.org, en vez de leerle una lista de los daños ecológicos que produce su vida cotidiana. Simon Anholt explica en esta conferencia TED su idea sobre los problemas de gobernanza mundial y el índice del buen Estado. Que la disfruten.
Making Sovereign Financing and Human Rights Work
julio 9, 2014
¡Felicidades a Juan Pablo y Jernej por este excelente nuevo libro! Más abajo pueden encontrar los enlaces para leer el índice, el prólogo del profesor Philip Alston y el primer capítulo. También hay un enlace para obtener un descuento sobre el precio fijado, por si quieren recomendarlo a sus bibliotecas o comprarlo.
Making Sovereign Financing and Human Rights Work
Edited by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Jernej Letnar Černič
Poor public resource management and the global financial crisis curbing fundamental fiscal space, millions thrown into poverty, and authoritarian regimes running successful criminal campaigns with the help of financial institutions are all phenomena that raise fundamental questions around finance and human rights. They also highlight the urgent need for more systematic and robust legal and economic thinking about sovereign finance and human rights.
This edited collection aims to contribute to filling this gap by introducing novel legal theories and analyses of the links between sovereign debt and human rights from a variety of perspectives. These chapters include studies of financial complicity, UN sanctions, ethics, transitional justice, criminal law, insolvency proceedings, millennium development goals, global financial architecture, corporations, extraterritoriality, state of necessity, sovereign wealth and hedge funds, project financing, state responsibility, international financial institutions, the right to development, UN initiatives, litigation, as well as case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America. These chapters are then theorised by the editors in an introductory chapter.
In July 2012 the UN Human Rights Council finally issued its own guidelines on foreign debt and human rights, yet much remains to be done to promote better understanding of the legal and economic implications of the interface between finance and human rights. This book will contribute to that understanding as well as help practitioners in their everyday work. The authors include world-renowned lawyers and economists, experienced practitioners and officials from international organisations.
Table of contents: http://www.hartpub.co.uk/pdf/9781849464383.pdf
Foreword by Philip Alston and the first chapter: http://www.hartpub.co.uk/pdf/samples/9781849464383sample.pdf
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky is Sovereign Debt Expert at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
Jernej Letnar Černič is Assistant Professor of Human Rights Law, School of Government and European Studies, Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia
June 2014 390pp Hbk 9781849464383
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