Judges and scholars have interpreted human rights treaties as obligating states to mitigate
climate change by limiting their greenhouse gas emissions, an argument instrumental to the …

Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights deals with socio-
economic rights in the context of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights …

In light of a recent shift in dialogue to hard law standards in the domain of business and
human rights, this article provides an in-depth examination of the viability of a business and …

As part of the roundtable “Economic Sanctions and Their Consequences,” this essay
examines unilateral coercive measures. These types of sanctions are applied outside the …

This detailed Commentary explores the boundaries of social rights at a European level
through analysis of the Revised European Social Charter (RESC), the most comprehensive …

The fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a
new international social order built on pluralist democracy, the rule of law, and universal …

International human rights law may serve as a language through which lawyers and others
describe the harms resulting from corruption, but this approach has significant limitations as …

This article argues that a new understanding of the indivisibility of human rights has
emerged through the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The …

Experience shows that both sudden-and slow-onset disasters can result in displacement.
Indeed, disasters now account for the largest number of newly displaced people each year …

Part of the debate on the impact of privatisation in and of education lies in determining
against which standards of evidence should the phenomenon be assessed. The questions …