This article aims to fill the gap in the academic literature on the application of a rights based approach to the issue of human trafficking in Mongolia. A rights based approach is adopted to determine the international legal obligations of Mongolia to combat human trafficking under...

Growing out of the authors' work for the International Criminal Court, which was sponsored by a grant from the Open Society Institute, No Way Out examines one of the most vexing legal questions facing the International Criminal Court - whether a State that has referred a case to the Court can...

International trade and investment agreements are problematic from a participatory rights perspective because they are typically negotiated without adequate opportunities for participation of the public. Such agreements provide for disputes concerning public policy to be decided by private...

Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) have become an essential legal instrument in international investment law for economic growth and development. BITs and multilateral investment treaties encourage foreign direct investment by providing legal protection to investors of the “home” state,...

This paper examines the rise of algorithmic systems—that is systems of data driven governance (and social credit type) systems in the context of business and human rights and its ramifications (especially its challenges) for law. Section 1 sketches the context within which it is possible to...

In November 2010, the International Standardization Organization (ISO) published the ‘International Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility - ISO 26000’ (ISO 26000). ISO 26000 is a voluntary international standard that provides guidance to companies and other organizations on social...

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...

The article deals with the question of whether and why corporations are human rights subjects by analysing the different approaches of regional economic courts and regional human rights courts. For some of these courts, protecting corporate human rights is the natural response to the key role...