The study accounts for recent developments in corporate voluntarism and assesses the evolving corporate social responsibility (CSR) regime. CSR proposes a new norm for how large businesses should approach complexity in a modern economy. The first chapter anchors the CSR … Continue reading » “Institutionalisation of corporate social responsibilities: synergies between the practices of leading multinational enterprises and human rights law/policy”
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Proof, Evidentiary Assessment and Credibility in Asylum Procedures
Today, a majority of asylum cases are arguably decided on the basis of evidentiary assessment rather than issues of material law. Although the EU-wide Common European Asylum System purports to harmonise domestic practices at a minimum level, it fails to … Continue reading » “Proof, Evidentiary Assessment and Credibility in Asylum Procedures”
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Journalism Worthy of the Name
The subject of this study is ‘freedom within the press’, the nature and limits of the protection afforded to the journalistic imparting process, which has been a neglected area of research. The analysis draws on the classical defenders of freedom … Continue reading » “Journalism Worthy of the Name”
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Judicial Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The implementation of economic, social and cultural rights is a most pressing item on the international human rights agenda. Millions of people go without food, health, shelter, education, work, social security, not because the resources are unavailable to provide for … Continue reading » “Judicial Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”
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Achieving Peace or Protecting Human Rights?
Conflicts between Norms Regarding Ethnic Discrimination in the
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Human Rights and Migrant Domestic Work
On a general level, this research project concerns ways in which the domestic and international laws relating to the situation of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) are shaped by broader socio-political and economic factors. More specifically, this dissertation examines the human … Continue reading » “Human Rights and Migrant Domestic Work”
Continue readingArmed intervention, pursuing legitimacy and the pragmatic use of legal argument
This study examines how States use legal arguments in cases of armed intervention and how this usage can influence the development of international law. The objective is to contribute to the understanding of the law on armed intervention by conducting … Continue reading » “Armed intervention, pursuing legitimacy and the pragmatic use of legal argument”
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