The WTO and the human rights systems have been created to pursue the same global objective: advancing human welfare. However, while the WTO scheme, including the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), is concerned with aggregated improvements in global welfare, human rights focus on the individual and...

The present paper explores the multi-layered relationship between plant patents, the right to food and competition law. The present contribution takes the view that the growing tendency to appropriate agricultural crops through intellectual property (IP) – thereby making a pivotal shift from...

The deterioration of employment conditions for an increasing number of employees in late capitalism has prompted researchers to find ways to conceptualise, as well as measure, these observed new tendencies.This book examines precarious employment in Europe through the economic crisis, drawing on...