Companies, International Trade and Human Rights

by Janet Dine

Overview

Originally published in 2005, this book focuses on the role of corporations within the trading system, and the complex relationships between corporations, nation states and international organisations. The actions and motives that drive corporations are considered as well as the structure of the international trading system. Remedial devices such as Codes of Conduct and Human Rights instruments are assessed for effectiveness. The book seeks reasons for what is a growing understanding that international trading regimes are not meeting objectives found in many international agreements, including both the international trade agreements themselves (WTO, GATT, TRIPS etc.) and human rights instruments. In particular, it is clear that the prevalence and severity of poverty is not being adequately addressed. This work sets out to investigate the role played by companies in this failure in the globalisation of trade to realise its aims, in particular the failure to achieve the minimum of basic rights, the right to food.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781139810036
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/24/2005
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Corporate Law , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	714 KB

About the Author

JANET DINE is Professor of Law at the University of Essex and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London.

Table of Contents

Preface; Table of statutes, agreements, covenants and treaties; Table of cases; List of abbreviation; 1. A global crisis?; 2. Why we are here; 3. The institutional framework; 4. Relationship between Companies and Human Rights Law; 5. Corporate social responsibility; 6. Understanding property rights: companies, states and the duty of international co-operation; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Janet Dine provides a wide-ranging discussion of several issues related to economic globalization....Companies, International Trade and Human Rights employs a legal and normative perspective, discussing recent works by various normative theorists as well as case law from Britain, the United States, and continential Europe, and international treaty law....Dine's book raises many important questions and advances several provocative claims..."
—Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Political Science Quarterly (The Journal of Public and International Affairs)

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