Introduction

What the authors want to sketch out in this essay in honor of Eibe Riedel is the way in which the policy dialogue between States, investors, and other public interest constituents could be advanced further through the use of a hitherto untapped international institutional source of expertise on social and economic rights. We refer to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the monitoring body created in 1985 and in operation since 1987, entrusted with overseeing the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 19 December 1966 ...