Balancing Human Rights and Investor Protection: A New Approach for a Different Legal Order
Article from: TDM 1 (2004), in Human Rights
Summary
The international legal landscape has undergone a sea change over the past five decades and two of the most prominent areas that have affected, and been affected by, this change are international economic law and international human rights. Both systems of law have moved towards the articulation of non-state rights and interests in both norm development and in prosecution of norms. By grafting a human rights claim mechanism onto the existing structure of international investment protection treaties, one can both recognise the growing place of the ...