Global Human Rights Law
Les défis du droit global
Globalization forces us to rethink justice and the law on a global scale. In the absence of a world state, we must invent new ways to meet the great challenges facing humanity at the dawn of the third millennium: How to ensure effective protection of human rights in the world and respect of the rule […] Lire la suite
Pragmatism Without Principle?: How a Comprehensive Treaty on Business and Human Rights Ought to be Framed, Why It Can’t, and the Dangers of the Pragmatic Turn in Treaty Crafting
The calls for an international treaty to elaborate the human rights obligations of transnational corporations and other business enterprises have been rapidly growing, due to the failures of existing regulatory initiatives in holding powerful business actors accountable for human rights abuses. In response, Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights explores the context and […] Lire la suite
Biens communs et droits fondamentaux
O Direito Transnacional (“Global Law”) e a crise de paradigma do Estado-centrismo: é possível conceber uma ordem jurídica transnacional?
International Responsibility: Essays in Law, History and Philosophy
Responsibility is a pivotal concept in law, but also in history and philosophy. Some argue that there can be no law without responsibility. However central the concept of responsibility is to legality, and maybe because it is that inescapable, it remains fraught with conceptual and normative difficulties. Responsibility is also a concept whose transfer from […] Lire la suite
A New Global Paradigm for Religious Freedom
Anti-discrimination Law in the Global Age
This article argues that the traditional segregated approach to anti-discrimination law, which studies different courts and legal orders in isolation from one another, no longer provides adequate conceptual and normative tools to fully grasp the current evolutions and challenges in this domain. Instead, there is a genuine need for a global approach to anti-discrimination law […] Lire la suite
Une possible histoire de la norme. Les normativités émergentes de la mondialisation (2e édition)
The normative architecture of contemporary Western societies is transformed by the combined action of the globalization of commercial and financial exchanges, the economic shift attributed to the modes of governance of the public administration, the globalization of risks and intensification of State interdependencies. Globalization is shaking up the state’s monopoly on the law by illustrating […] Lire la suite
Intimations of Global Law
A strain of law reaching beyond any bounded international or transnational remit to assert a global jurisdiction has recently acquired a new prominence. Intimations of Global Law detects this strain in structures of international law claiming a planetary scope independent of state consent, in new threads of global constitutional law, administrative law and human rights, […] Lire la suite