The Role of Human Rights in Shaping International Regulatory Regimes

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ID4891304
AuthorsOlivier De Schutter (0000-0002-2773-9679, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume79
Issue4
Pages785-818
Publication date2012-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/sor.2012.0055
OpenAlexW90034204
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

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 the reform of the global governance of food security following the global food crisis in order to ensure that sectoral policies converge towards the realization of the right to food, provides a source of inspiration for the reforms that are needed. The challenge is not to imagine utopias: it is to define how we can make progress towards achieving them

Agriculture · Business · Corporate governance · Duty · Economic system · Economics · Food security · Global governance · Human rights · International law · International trade · Law and economics · Order (exchange) · Political science · Right to food · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · World Trade Organization Law

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