Olivier De Schutter
Biographic Data
| ID | 169878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivier De Schutter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivier |
| FAMILY NAME | De Schutter |
| SIGNATURE | DE SCHUTTER O |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2773-9679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 336 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Deliberating towards development
The Poverty of Growth
An accessible, jargon-free manifesto for how to achieve prosperity without growth
The Escape from Poverty
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. The perpetuation of poverty across generations damages lives. It weakens social cohesion and the economy and undermines environmental sustainability. This book examines why poverty is carried on from one generation to the next and what needs to be done to eradicate it. This book draws on a wide variety of sources and academic disciplines (social sciences, economics, law, community dev…
Réduction des inégalités et transition écologique, l’exemple de la tarification du carbone
Réussir la transition écologique en luttant contre la pauvreté
La crise économique majeure déclenchée par la pandémie du Covid-19 peut constituer l’occasion d’un véritable changement de cap. Il devient possible de concilier lutte contre la pauvreté et les inégalités d’une part, et respect des limites planétaires d’autre part. Cette conciliation, à laquelle invitent les Objectifs de développement durable des Nations unies, passe par l’invention d’un nouveau modèle de développement qui ne repose plus sur la cr…
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level
Flambées à réguler
La crise actuelle rappelle de près les précédentes, avec une hausse des prix de l'énergie répercutée sur les denrées alimentaires. La guerre en Ukraine amplifie l'équation, mais des solutions de régulation existent. Entretien
'Building back better'
As the world faces an unprecedented economic crisis, governments have adopted various stimulus plans to speed up the recovery. This article examines how the fight against poverty can be combined with the search for a development model that mitigates climate change and halts the erosion of biodiversity. The transformation also needs to strengthen the rights of people living in poverty. In specific areas, such as energy, buildings, food or mobility…
Re-righting the international tax rules
Who finances government, and how, is foundational to realising human rights for all, without discrimination. This is especially pertinent during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is only exacerbating health and economic disparities. This article reviews what a national human rights-aligned tax policy would look like, and then dissects how the international tax rules currently impede individual States, and particularly low- and middle- income countries…
A ‘Common Food Policy’ for Europe
The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change
Systemic ethics and inclusive governance
The Political Economy Approach to Food Systems Reform
The political economy approach to food systems steers away both from approaches that focus on biogeochemical flows and the embeddedness of food systems in the biosphere, and from classical economists’ approaches that address the role of prices in relating supply and demand. This article discusses what is specific to the political economy analysis, which places power at the centre of its inquiry; and it lists the challenges this approach faces in …
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The core objective of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since its founding in 1945 has been to eradicate hunger. International policy debates and the work of the Organization focused until the 1980s on increasing agricultural production; however, a shift has occurred in recent years in the understanding of FAO’s mandate. The modest but growing reference to the right to food has become an essential part of this new …
The Governance Features of Social Enterprise and Social Network Activities of Collective Food Buying Groups
Contrôle des sociétés transnationales
Governing Access to Essential Resources
Essential resources do more than satisfy people’s needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing and standard legal institutions, such as property rights and national border controls, are strangling access to resources for some while delivering prosperity to others, many are searching for ways to ensure their fair distribution. This book argues that …
Towards a New Treaty on Business and Human Rights
This article examines the legal as well as political feasibility of four potential options for a legally-binding international instrument in the area of business and human rights. The four options that the open-ended intergovernmental working group may wish to consider while negotiating an instrument are: (i) to clarify and strengthen the states’ duty to protect human rights, including extraterritorially; (ii) to oblige states, through a framewor…
Welfare State Reform and Social Rights
In all rich countries, though at different speeds, the Welfare State has been going through an important reform process since the mid-1990s. We have witnessed a gradual merger between social assistance and unemployment assistance, as the former was made increasingly conditional upon the beneficiary actively seeking work and as the levels and the duration of unemployment benefits were drastically lowered; a contractualisation of the relationship b…
Trade in the service of climate change mitigation
This article takes as its departure point the problem of ‘carbon leakage’. While industrialized countries outsource their most polluting industries, they can pretend to comply with their commitments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions simply by increasing volumes of imports. Instead of the current fragmentation of the trade and climate change agendas, a more coherent system is needed, in which access to markets is made conditional on the adoption …
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights
This volume offers a selection of those major contributions which have shaped debate in the field of economic, social and cultural rights. The broad range of discussion includes: the nature of economic, social and cultural rights and the ability of courts to protect them; the effectiveness of non-judicial protective mechanisms at both the universal and the domestic level; ways of measuring whether states do enough to â progressively realizeâ thes…
L'agriculture industrielle a des coûts cachés pour la collectivité
et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
The Role of Human Rights in Shaping International Regulatory Regimes
This paper explores the role of human rights in overcoming the fragmentation of international law and international governance. It explains why the current imbalance resulting from this fragmentation, in which undertakings under trade and investment treaties tend to take priority over the duty of States to progressively realize human rights, can only be overcome by reshaping the international economic environment. The 'Rome model', illustrated by…
Accounting for Hunger
The challenge of global hunger is now high on the agenda of governments and international policy-makers. This new work contributes to addressing that challenge, by looking at the obstacles which stand in the way of implementing a right to food in the era of globalisation. The book describes the current situation of global hunger; it considers how it relates both to the development of food systems and to the merger of the food and energy markets; …
How not to think of land-grabbing
Large-scale investments in farmland have been criticized, chiefly, because of questions about the capacity of the countries targeted by these land deals to effectively manage these investments in order to ensure that they contribute to rural development and poverty alleviation. This article questions the idea that this is the only or even the main problem raised by such investments. If weak governance were the only problem, then appropriate regul…
How not to think of land-grabbing
Large-scale investments in farmland have been criticized, chiefly, because of questions about the capacity of the countries targeted by these land deals to effectively manage these investments in order to ensure that they contribute to rural development and poverty alleviation. This article questions the idea that this is the only or even the main problem raised by such investments. If weak governance were the only problem, then appropriate regul…
Towards a New Treaty on Business and Human Rights
This article examines the legal as well as political feasibility of four potential options for a legally-binding international instrument in the area of business and human rights. The four options that the open-ended intergovernmental working group may wish to consider while negotiating an instrument are: (i) to clarify and strengthen the states’ duty to protect human rights, including extraterritorially; (ii) to oblige states, through a framewor…
A ‘Common Food Policy’ for Europe
Systemic ethics and inclusive governance
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level
The Governance Features of Social Enterprise and Social Network Activities of Collective Food Buying Groups
Ethnic Profiling
Ethnic profiling, defined as the use of racial, ethnic or religious background as a determining criterion for the adoption of law enforcement decisions, has been rising significantly in Europe, in particular in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. This article examines whether European human rights law is well equipped to deal with this challenge, and if not, how it should be reformed. Against the widely held assumption that pe…
L'équilibre entre l'économique et le social dans les traités européens
Cette étude resitue dans sa perspective historique l’équilibre défini par les traités européens entre les dimensions économique et sociale de la construction européenne. Elle met en lumière les deux caractéristiques que présente la construction de l’Europe sociale. Premièrement, plutôt qu’un objectif en elle-même, l’Europe sociale a longtemps constitué une mesure d’accompagnement de l’intégration économique entre les États membres de la Communaut…
The Political Economy Approach to Food Systems Reform
The political economy approach to food systems steers away both from approaches that focus on biogeochemical flows and the embeddedness of food systems in the biosphere, and from classical economists’ approaches that address the role of prices in relating supply and demand. This article discusses what is specific to the political economy analysis, which places power at the centre of its inquiry; and it lists the challenges this approach faces in …
Welfare State Reform and Social Rights
In all rich countries, though at different speeds, the Welfare State has been going through an important reform process since the mid-1990s. We have witnessed a gradual merger between social assistance and unemployment assistance, as the former was made increasingly conditional upon the beneficiary actively seeking work and as the levels and the duration of unemployment benefits were drastically lowered; a contractualisation of the relationship b…
Trade in the service of climate change mitigation
This article takes as its departure point the problem of ‘carbon leakage’. While industrialized countries outsource their most polluting industries, they can pretend to comply with their commitments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions simply by increasing volumes of imports. Instead of the current fragmentation of the trade and climate change agendas, a more coherent system is needed, in which access to markets is made conditional on the adoption …
Les Critical Legal Studies au pays du droit international public
Cet article, déjà publié dans la Revue québécoise de droit international, se situe à l'intersection du droit international et de la théorie du droit. Son ambition est d'introduire à une branche particulière du mouvement des Critical Legal Studies, qui offre une lecture néo-structuraliste du droit international public. Après une présentation générale des thèses de cette branche critique du droit des gens, l'on tente de mettre en oeuvre la méthodol…
Sur l'emergence de la societe civile en droit international
La jurisprudence actuelle des organes de surveillance de la Convention europeenne des droits de l'homme exclut la requete d'intdret collectif, c'est-a-dire la requete introduite par une association pour la defense de l'objet social en vue duquel elle est constitute. On releve cependant trois alternatives a la requete d'interet collectif, qui permettent a 1'association de jouer un role dans la procedure men£e devant la Cour europeenne des droits d…
L'équilibre entre l'économique et le social dans les traités européens
Cette étude resitue dans sa perspective historique l’équilibre défini par les traités européens entre les dimensions économique et sociale de la construction européenne. Elle met en lumière les deux caractéristiques que présente la construction de l’Europe sociale. Premièrement, plutôt qu’un objectif en elle-même, l’Europe sociale a longtemps constitué une mesure d’accompagnement de l’intégration économique entre les États membres de la Communaut…
The Balance Between Economic and Social Objectives in the European Treaties
This study puts into historical perspective the balance defined by the European treaties between the economic and social dimensions of the European project. It highlights the two main characteristics of the building of social Europe. First, rather than constituting an objective for its own sake, social Europe has until recently developed as an accompanying measure of the economic integration between the Member States of the European Community, an…
Transnational Corporations And Human Rights (Studies in International Law)
This volume offers a systematic overview of the different tools through which the human rights accountability of transnational corporations may be improved. It first examines the responsibility of States in controlling transnational corporations, emphasizing both the limits imposed by the protection of the rights of investors under investment treaties and the potential of the US Alien Tort Claims Act and other similar extra-territorial legislatio…
Ethnic Profiling
Ethnic profiling, defined as the use of racial, ethnic or religious background as a determining criterion for the adoption of law enforcement decisions, has been rising significantly in Europe, in particular in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. This article examines whether European human rights law is well equipped to deal with this challenge, and if not, how it should be reformed. Against the widely held assumption that pe…
Accounting for Hunger
The challenge of global hunger is now high on the agenda of governments and international policy-makers. This new work contributes to addressing that challenge, by looking at the obstacles which stand in the way of implementing a right to food in the era of globalisation. The book describes the current situation of global hunger; it considers how it relates both to the development of food systems and to the merger of the food and energy markets; …
How not to think of land-grabbing
Large-scale investments in farmland have been criticized, chiefly, because of questions about the capacity of the countries targeted by these land deals to effectively manage these investments in order to ensure that they contribute to rural development and poverty alleviation. This article questions the idea that this is the only or even the main problem raised by such investments. If weak governance were the only problem, then appropriate regul…
The Role of Human Rights in Shaping International Regulatory Regimes
This paper explores the role of human rights in overcoming the fragmentation of international law and international governance. It explains why the current imbalance resulting from this fragmentation, in which undertakings under trade and investment treaties tend to take priority over the duty of States to progressively realize human rights, can only be overcome by reshaping the international economic environment. The 'Rome model', illustrated by…
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights
This volume offers a selection of those major contributions which have shaped debate in the field of economic, social and cultural rights. The broad range of discussion includes: the nature of economic, social and cultural rights and the ability of courts to protect them; the effectiveness of non-judicial protective mechanisms at both the universal and the domestic level; ways of measuring whether states do enough to â progressively realizeâ thes…
L'agriculture industrielle a des coûts cachés pour la collectivité
et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
Trade in the service of climate change mitigation
This article takes as its departure point the problem of ‘carbon leakage’. While industrialized countries outsource their most polluting industries, they can pretend to comply with their commitments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions simply by increasing volumes of imports. Instead of the current fragmentation of the trade and climate change agendas, a more coherent system is needed, in which access to markets is made conditional on the adoption …
Governing Access to Essential Resources
Essential resources do more than satisfy people’s needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing and standard legal institutions, such as property rights and national border controls, are strangling access to resources for some while delivering prosperity to others, many are searching for ways to ensure their fair distribution. This book argues that …
Towards a New Treaty on Business and Human Rights
This article examines the legal as well as political feasibility of four potential options for a legally-binding international instrument in the area of business and human rights. The four options that the open-ended intergovernmental working group may wish to consider while negotiating an instrument are: (i) to clarify and strengthen the states’ duty to protect human rights, including extraterritorially; (ii) to oblige states, through a framewor…
Welfare State Reform and Social Rights
In all rich countries, though at different speeds, the Welfare State has been going through an important reform process since the mid-1990s. We have witnessed a gradual merger between social assistance and unemployment assistance, as the former was made increasingly conditional upon the beneficiary actively seeking work and as the levels and the duration of unemployment benefits were drastically lowered; a contractualisation of the relationship b…
Contrôle des sociétés transnationales
The Governance Features of Social Enterprise and Social Network Activities of Collective Food Buying Groups
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The core objective of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since its founding in 1945 has been to eradicate hunger. International policy debates and the work of the Organization focused until the 1980s on increasing agricultural production; however, a shift has occurred in recent years in the understanding of FAO’s mandate. The modest but growing reference to the right to food has become an essential part of this new …
The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change
Systemic ethics and inclusive governance
The Political Economy Approach to Food Systems Reform
The political economy approach to food systems steers away both from approaches that focus on biogeochemical flows and the embeddedness of food systems in the biosphere, and from classical economists’ approaches that address the role of prices in relating supply and demand. This article discusses what is specific to the political economy analysis, which places power at the centre of its inquiry; and it lists the challenges this approach faces in …
'Building back better'
As the world faces an unprecedented economic crisis, governments have adopted various stimulus plans to speed up the recovery. This article examines how the fight against poverty can be combined with the search for a development model that mitigates climate change and halts the erosion of biodiversity. The transformation also needs to strengthen the rights of people living in poverty. In specific areas, such as energy, buildings, food or mobility…
Re-righting the international tax rules
Who finances government, and how, is foundational to realising human rights for all, without discrimination. This is especially pertinent during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is only exacerbating health and economic disparities. This article reviews what a national human rights-aligned tax policy would look like, and then dissects how the international tax rules currently impede individual States, and particularly low- and middle- income countries…
A ‘Common Food Policy’ for Europe
Réduction des inégalités et transition écologique, l’exemple de la tarification du carbone
Political science (27 works) · Economics (15 works) · Business (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Corporate governance (8 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Human rights (8 works) · Law and economics (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Food security (6 works)