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Ecomic globalization and respect for human rights are both highly topical issues. In theory, more trade should increase ecomic welfare and protection of human rights should ensure individual dignity. Both fields of law protect certain freedoms: ecomic development should lead to higher human rights standards, and UN embargoes are used to secure compliance with human rights agreements. However the interaction between trade liberalisation and human rights protection is complex, and recently, tension has arisen between these two areas. Do WTO obligations covering intellectual property prevent governments from implementing their human rights obligations, including rights to food or health? Is it fair to accord the benefits of trade subject to a clean human rights record? This book first examines the theoretical framework of the interaction between the disciplines of international trade law and human rights. It builds upon the well-kwn debate between Professor Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, who construes trade obligations as human rights, and Professor Philip Alston, who warns of a merger and acquisition of human rights by trade law. From this starting point, further chapters explore the differing legal matrices of the two fields and examine how cooperation between them might be improved, both in international law-making and institutions,in dispute settlement. The interaction between trade and human rights is then explored through seven case studies:freedom of expression and competition law; IP protection and health; agricultural trade and the right to food; trade restrictions on conflict WHO convention on tobacco control; and, finally, human rights conditionalities in preferential trade schemes.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-100199285837
ISBN-139780199285839
eBay Product ID (ePID)96758819
Product Key Features
Number of Pages544 Pages
Publication NameHuman Rights and International Trade
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
SubjectEconomics: Textbooks & Study Guides
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLaw, Business & Economics, Political Science
AuthorJoost Pauwelyn
SeriesInternational Economic Law Ser.
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight28.9 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Height233mm
Width155mm
Weight798g
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication17/11/2005
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Place of PublicationOxford
Spine28mm
Series TitleInternational Economic Law Series
Edited byElisabeth Burgi, Joost Pauwelyn, Thomas Cottier
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
GenreEconomics: Textbooks & Study Guides
Author BiographyThomas Cottier is Managing Director of the World Trade Institute, Bern; and Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Joost Pauwelyn is Associate Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. Elisabeth Burgi is an attorney at law, and a researcher at the World Trade Institute, Bern and at the Institute of European and International Economic Law of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
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