Making sovereign financing and human rights work / / edited by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Jernej Letnar Černič

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, England ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 343; 343.037; 343/.037
• Soggetto topico: Debts, Public - Law and legislation; Debts, External - Law and legislation; Human rights - Economic aspects
• Persona (resp. second.): BohoslavskyJuan Pablo; ČerničJernej Letnar
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Contributors; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; 1 Placing Human Rights at the Centre of Sovereign Financing; I OBSERVING THE INTERLINKS BETWEEN SOVEREIGN DEBTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS; A Filling the Gap: Human Beings First; B A Bottom-up Approach; II PRESENTATION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK; Part I: Debt and Gross Violations of Political and Civil Rights; 2 Rational Choice and Financial Complicity with Human Rights Abuses: Policy and Legal Implications ; I INTRODUCTION: WHY THIS INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH?II FINANCIAL COMPLICITY IN POLITICAL SCIENCE: FOREIGN INCOME AND AUTHORITARIAN RESILIENCE; III LEGAL DIMENSION: A RUDIMENTARY ANSWER; A Conventions and Customary International Law; B Jurisprudence; IV POLICY AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS IN THE CONTEXT OF COMPLICITY; V ASSESSING THE VERISIMILITUDE OF THE IMPLICATIONS; 3 UN Sanctions that Safeguard, Undermine, or Both, Human Rights; I INTRODUCTION; II UN SANCTIONS: LEGAL FRAMEWORK; III IMPACT ON HUMAN RIGHTS: THE IRANIAN CASE; IV TOWARDS AN OPERATIONAL METHODOLOGY; V CONCLUSION ; 4 The Significance of Human Rights for the Debt of Countries in TransitionI LINKAGES BETWEEN DEBT AND HUMAN RIGHTS; A Debt Forgiveness and Human Rights; II TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND ECONOMIC VIOLENCE; A Odious and Illegitimate Debt; III THE POLICY RELEVANCE OF A HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE; 5 Establishing Liability for Financial Complicity in International Crimes; I INTRODUCTION; II CORPORATE COMPLICITY IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMES; A No Recognition of Corporate Complicity before International Criminal Tribunals; B The Notion of Corporate Complicity before Domestic Courts ; III FINANCIAL COMPLICITY IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMESIV LESSONS FROM INTERNATIONAL LAW ON FINANCING TERRORISM; V CONCLUSION; Part II: Debt Crises and Social and Economic Rights; 6 Human Rights and Sovereign Debt Workouts; I THE ASYMMETRY BETWEEN DEBT AND HUMAN RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT: LEGAL AND DISCURSIVE HISTORY; II HUMAN RIGHTS AFFECTED IN SOVEREIGN DEBT WORKOUTS; A Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of People in the Debtor State; B Civil and Political Rights of People in the Debtor State; C Human Rights of Creditors; III JUSTIFICATION OF MEASURES AFFECTING HUMAN RIGHTS ; A Retrogressive Measures Affecting Economic, Social and Cultural RightsB Measures Affecting Property Rights and Due Process Rights; IV RESPONSIBILITY; A Debtor State; B International Organisations; C Paris Club; D Bilateral Lenders; E Private Creditors; V RECTIFYING ASYMMETRIES THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; 7 A Sovereign Debt Overhang, Human Rights and the MDGs: Legal Problems through an Economist's Lens; I INTRODUCTION; II HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS AND UNPAYABLE DEBTS; III SOVEREIGN DEBTS AND DEBTOR PROTECTION; IV CONCLUSIONS; 8 Debts and State of Necessity; I INTRODUCTION ; II IS THERE A STATE OF NECESSITY DEFENCE AVAILABLE FOR ECONOMIC EMERGENCIES?
• Sommario/riassunto: There is an 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Making sovereign financing and human rights work
• ISBN: 1-5099-0924-9; 1-78225-393-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787912403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II