Poverty and the International Economic Legal System
Subtitle: Duties to the World's Poor
Publisher: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781107032743
Subjects: Law and economics; Poverty; International law; Poor laws; Sociological jurisprudence
Description: "With a focus on how trade, foreign investment, commercial arbitration and financial regulation rules affect impoverished individuals, Poverty and the International Economic Legal System examines the relationship between the legal rules of the international economic law system and states' obligations to reduce poverty. The contributors include leading practitioners, practice-oriented scholars and legal theorists, who discuss the human aspects of global economic activity without resorting to either overly dogmatic human rights approaches or technocratic economic views. The essays extend beyond development discussions by encourag-ing further efforts to study, improve and develop legal mechanisms for the benefit of the world's poor and challenging traditionally de-personified legal areas to engage with their real-world impacts"--