The World Trade Organization and Human Rights

Edited by Sarah Joseph, David Kinley and Jeff Waincymer

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This collection of essays from leading academics examines the connection between the World Trade Organization (WTO) and human rights issues, a topic which has provoked significant debate, particularly in the decade since the collapsed WTO talks in Seattle in 1999.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
ISBN: 9781847206619
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The Trade and Human Rights Debate: Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Analysis

Jeff Waincymer

Ch 2 Beyond the Divide: The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Political Rights and the World Trade Organization

Robert Howse and Ruti G. Teitel

Ch 3 International Trade Law, Human Rights and the Customary International Law Rules on Treaty Interpretation

Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

Ch 4 Globalisation and Human Rights: An Economist’s Perspective

Pranab Bardhan

Ch 5 Resources, Rules and International Political Economy: The Politics of Development in the WTO

Kenneth C. Shadlen

Ch 6 International Economic Justice: Is a Principled Liberalism Possible?

Patrick Emerton

Ch 7 Inter-regime Encounters

Andrew T.F. Lang

Ch 8 Games within Fragmentation: The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

Hélène Ruiz Fabri

Ch 9 Viet Nam, Human Rights and Trade: Implications of Viet Nam’s Accession to the WTO

David Kinley, Hai Nguyen and Odette Murray

Ch 10 The WTO and Labor Rights: Strategies of Linkage

Chantal Thomas

Ch 11 Public Opinion and the Interpretation of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

Caroline E. Foster

Ch 12 Democratic Deficit, Participation and the WTO

Sarah Joseph

Ch 13 Energy Security, Economic Development and Climate Change: Carbon Markets and the WTO

Graciela Chichilnisky

Ch 14 From Realpolitik of International Trade to the Geneva Consensus

Shervin Majlessi

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