There has been a recent resurgence in scholarly work concerned with the economics of human rights. This article builds on this work to develop a conceptual framework of human rights and political economy. It provides a theoretical basis for the turn to human rights and economics, rooted in the...

States hold international human rights obligations to protect rights-holders from infringements by third parties and to fulfil access to rights. States also increasingly rely on businesses to provide essential human rights resources, including for housing, food, and healthcare. How these...

Socio-economic rights include labour rights, rights to food, housing, healthcare, education, and social protection, as well as a necessary supplements such as transportation that may be necessary to realize one’s access to healthcare. All of these increasingly depend on business. At the global...

Socio-economic justice can be defined in a plethora of ways. Hayek proposed a capitalist vision of socio-economic justice rooted in individual freedom that made a competitive virtue of economic inequality. Marxist-inspired thought identifies the tendency of capitalism to lead to material...

This paper defines the emergent field of human rights and political economy. This is a structural approach utilizing doctrinal human rights standards to understand and challenge the economic rules and practices that shape human rights realization. A fundamental rationale is the juxtaposition of...

Corporate actions often adversely impact human rights in ways that are not easily justiciable. Such actions include the production and use of fossil fuels, contributing to climate change and its impacts, and actions that deny or retrogress access to the global food, housing and pharmaceutical...

This article analyses the recent exchange of letters between two UN human rights mandate-holders and the Blackstone Group L.P., a private equity firm with significant investments in the rental housing market in multiple jurisdictions. The mandate-holders argue that Blackstone’s investments are...