Making Sovereign Financing and Human Rights Work

NIPPOD
ISBN: 978-1-5099-0924-7
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 671 g

Poor public resource management and the global financial crisis curbing fundamental fiscal space, millions thrown into poverty, and authoritarian regimes running successful criminal campaigns with the help of financial assistance are all phenomena that raise fundamental questions around finance and human rights. They also highlight the 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 by introducing novel legal theories and analyses of the links between sovereign debt and human rights from a variety of perspectives. These chapters include studies of financial complicity, UN sanctions, ethics, transitional justice, criminal law, insolvency proceedings, millennium development goals, global financial architecture, corporations, extraterritoriality, state of necessity, sovereign wealth and hedge funds, project financing, state responsibility, international financial institutions, the right to development, UN initiatives, litigation, as well as case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America. These chapters are then theorised by the editors in an introductory chapter.

In July 2012 the UN Human Rights Council finally issued its own guidelines on foreign debt and human rights, yet much remains to be done to promote better understanding of the legal and economic implications of the interface between finance and human rights. This book will contribute to that understanding as well as help practitioners in their everyday work. The authors include world-renowned lawyers and economists, experienced practitioners and officials from international organisations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bohoslavsky, Juan Pablo

Cernic, Jernej Letnar

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft, Besteuerung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Placing Human Rights at the Centre of Sovereign Financing

Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Jernej Letnar ?Cerni?c
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

Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Abel Escribà-Folch
3 UN Sanctions that Safeguard, Undermine, or Both, Human Rights

Patricia Pinto Soares
4 The Significance of Human Rights for the Debt of Countries in Transition

Dustin Sharp
5 Establishing Liability for Financial Complicity in International Crimes

Nadia Bernaz
Part II Debt Crises and Social and Economic Rights

6 Human Rights and Sovereign Debt Workouts

Matthias Goldmann
7 A Sovereign Debt Overhang, Human Rights and the MDGs: Legal Problems through an Economist's Lens

Kunibert Raffer
8 Debts and State of Necessity

August Reinisch and Christina Binder
9 Global Financial Architecture and Human Rights

Rosa M Lastra
10 Sovereign Financing and Corporate Responsibility for Economic and Social Rights

Jernej Letnar ?Cerni?c
Part III Specific Financial Actors and Instruments, and Novel Approaches

11 Ethical Sovereign Investors: Sovereign Wealth Funds and Human Rights

Angela Cummine

Über Autor(innen)

Cernic, Jernej Letnar
Jernej Letnar Cernic is Associate Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law at the New University, Slovenia.

Bohoslavsky, Juan Pablo
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky is a sovereign debt expert at United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky is a sovereign debt expert at United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
Jernej Letnar Cernic is Assistant Professor of Human Rights Law, School of Government and European Studies, Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia.