Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2016.
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Bohoslavsky, Juan Pablo
• Černič, Jernej Letnar

Description

xxviii, 361 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"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."--

Subject

• Debts, Public > Law and legislation
• Debts, External > Law and legislation
• Human rights > Economic aspects
• Auslandsschulden
• Menschenrecht
• Souveränität
• Völkerrecht

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Placing human rights at the centre of sovereign financing / Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Jernej Letnar Černič -- Rational choice and financial complicity with human rights abuses : policy and legal implications / Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Abel Escribà-Folch -- UN sanctions that safeguard, undermine, or both, human rights / Patricia Pinto Soares -- The significance of human rights for the debt of countries in transition / Dustin Sharp -- Establishing liability for financial complicity in international crimes / Nadia Bernaz -- Human rights and sovereign debt workouts / Matthias Goldman -- A sovereign debt overhang, human rights and the MDGs : legal problems through an economist's lens / Kunibert Raffer -- Debts and state of necessity / August Reinisch and Christina Binder -- Global financial architecture and human rights / Rosa M. Lastra -- Sovereign financing and corporate responsibility for economic and social rights / Jernej Letnar Černič -- Ethical sovereign investors : sovereign wealth funds and human rights / Angela Cummine -- Sovereign financing and the human rights responsibilities of private creditors / Nicola Jägers -- Project finance and human rights / Sheldon Leader -- Enhancing the International Monetary Fund's compliance with human rights : the issue of accountability / Giuseppe Bianco and Filippo Fontanelli -- Extraterritorial human rights violations and irresponsible sovereign financing / Fozia Nazir Lone -- Sovereign debt and human rights : the United Nations approach / Cephas Lumina -- Bloody bucks? : foreign finance and armed conflicts in Africa / Dan Kuwali -- Development, sovereign support to finance and human rights : lessons from India / Surya Deva -- Contemporary lessons from Carter's incorporation of human rights into the financing of Southern cone dictatorships / Robert Bejesky and Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky -- Engagement, divestment or both? : conflicts and interactions, the case of Norwegian pension fund / Andreas Follesdal -- Towards making blood money visible : lessons drawn from the apartheid litigation / Ingrid Gubbay.

ISBN

• 1509909249
• 9781509909247

OCLC

• ocn953843733
• 953843733
• SCSB-8791366

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library