Non-state actors and human rights
By: edited by Philip Alston
Contributors: Alston, Philip; Academy of European Law; New York University. Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
Series: Collected courses of the Academy of European Law -- v. 13/3
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Human rights; Juristic persons; International business enterprises -- Law and legislation
Description: "As privatization, out-sourcing, and downsizing place ever more public or governmental functions into the hands of private actors, the human rights regime must adapt if it is to maintain its relevance. The contributors to this volume examine the different approaches that might be taken in order to ensure some degree of accountability. Making space in the legal regime to take account of the role of non-State actors is one of the biggest and most critical challenges facing international law today."--Jacket.
Notes: "Academy of European Law, European University Institute in collaboration with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-368) and index
Table of contents: title: The 'not-a-cat' syndrome : can the international human rights regime accommodate non-state actors? /   Philip Alston; title: The changing international legal framework for dealing with non-state actors / August Reinisch; title: The evolving status of NGOs under international law : a threat to the inter-state system? / Menno T. Kamminga; title: Economic, social, and cultural human rights and the International Monetary Fund / François Gianviti; title: Catching the conscience of the king : corporate players on the international stage / Celia Wells and Juanita Elias; title: Corporate responsibility and the international law of human rights : the new Lex Mercatoria / Ralph G. Steinhardt; title: The accountability of multinationals for human rights violations in European law / Olivier de Schutter; title: Human rights responsibilities of business as non-state actors / David Weissbrodt and Muria Kruger