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Some Elements in Knowledge Gaps on Business and Human Rights with Regard to a Future Research Agenda
For the CSR movement the challenge is broadly speaking to make responsible business practices both effective and sustainable in the long run, communicate them credibly to third parties, and institutionalise them more widely in the business community. In this article, … Continue reading » “Some Elements in Knowledge Gaps on Business and Human Rights with Regard to a Future Research Agenda”
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An Introduction to Sovereignty Games
“The Refugee, the Sovereign and the Sea: EU Interdiction Policies in the Mediterranean”, DIIS Working Paper, 6/2008.
This paper starts from the encounter between a European navy vessel and a dinghy carrying boat refugees and other desperate migrants across the Mediterranean or West African Sea towards Europe. It explores the growing trend in the EU of enacting … Continue reading » ““The Refugee, the Sovereign and the Sea: EU Interdiction Policies in the Mediterranean”, DIIS Working Paper, 6/2008.”
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Conundrums of Humanity
Sixty years since the end of World War II is two generations. And two generations is long enough to measure whether there has been a substantial change in direction in how mankind orders its affairs. It is clear that it … Continue reading » “Conundrums of Humanity”
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The Legal Culture of the European Court of Human Rights
While the supervision of the European Court of Human Rights constantly grows in importance, little is known about the people, especially the judges, inside the Court. To what extent are human rights sensitive to different traditions and is their work … Continue reading » “The Legal Culture of the European Court of Human Rights”
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The Right to Food and the TRIPS Agreement
A concise analysis of the relationship between patent rights and human rights is given in this book, focusing on the right to food. The UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights identified ‘apparent conflicts’ or ‘actual or potential conflicts’ between human rights … Continue reading » “The Right to Food and the TRIPS Agreement”
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Constitutionalism: New Challenges
This book has its roots in a conference on recent developments in Nordic and German constitutional law that took place in Berlin in 2002 at the Nordic Cultural Centre.That conference was organised within the projectKonstitutionalism, demokrati och den nordiska … Continue reading » “Constitutionalism: New Challenges”
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