All countries, regardless of their size or degree of development, face challenges related to the quality, quantity, and accessibility of their water supplies. Because of the critical importance of water to human health, these challenges require immediate and effective solutions; a lack of water...

As well as outlining the structure and organisation of the collection, this introduction seeks to contextualise the debate over intellectual property and climate change. As a foundation to the collection, it provides an overview of the negotiation, agreement, and implementation of the Paris...

This article presents an extensive and global survey on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address the COVID-19 epidemic and a comprehensive discussion of the ethical and human rights implications of AI's deployment during the pandemic. AI applications contributed to the COVID-19...

Climate change challenges the resiliency and integrity of social and legal systems worldwide. Responding to climate change requires us to think systematically – and ambitiously – about how to engage the rule of law as a tool in efforts to limit the causes and consequences of climate change....

This is a pre-publication draft of my contribution to a symposium in the Emory Law Journal honoring the extraordinary scholarly career of Michael J. Perry. In it I address some of the difficulties presenting themselves in contemporary literature on human rights. It is widely acknowledged that...

Do corporations have human rights? This article addresses a to date rather understudied issue of the corporations and human rights debate: whether and to what extent corporations can be bearers of human rights, with a focus on the ECHR and ECtHR jurisprudence. In a nutshell, it argues that what...

Significant numbers of multinational corporations ("MNCs") from the European Union ("EU") operate in the African, Caribbean and Pacific ("ACP") countries. The ACP countries are attractive operational bases because of the enormous availability of raw materials, low cost of labour, and favourable...