The prospects of common concern of humankind in international law / edited by Thomas Cottier, World Trade Institute; in association with Zaker Ahmad, World Trade Institute.
"The Common Concern of Humankind today is central to efforts to bring about enhanced international cooperation in fields including, but not limited to, climate change. This book explores the expression's potential as a legal concept and a future legal principle. It sets out the origins of...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "The Common Concern of Humankind today is central to efforts to bring about enhanced international cooperation in fields including, but not limited to, climate change. This book explores the expression's potential as a legal concept and a future legal principle. It sets out the origins of Common Concern, its differences to other common interest legal principles, and expounds the potential normative structure and effects of the principle, applying an approach of carrots and sticks in realising goals defined as a Common Concern. Individual chapters test the principle in different legal fields, including climate technology diffusion, marine plastic pollution, human rights enforcement, economic inequality, migration, and monetary and financial stability. They confirm that basic obligations under the principle of Common Concern of Humankind comprise not only that of international cooperation and duties to negotiate, but also of unilateral duties to act to enhance the potential of public international law to produce appropriate public goods, former managing director of the World Trade Institute, is Professor Emeritus of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern and an adjunct professor of law at the University of Ottawa. He has published widely in the field of international economic law, with a particular focus on constitutional theory and general principles of law, trade regulation and intellectual property, former student and researcher at the World Trade Institute, received his PhD from the Faculty of Law of the University of Bern. He is an Assistant Professor of law at the University of Chittagong in Bangladesh"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 467 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1108889158 9781108889155 |