Foreign Investment, Human Rights and the Environment

A Perspective from South Asia on the Role of Public International Law for Development
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15686-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Events like the Bhopal disaster, the sale of products harmful to human health and safety, and child labour, especially in resource-scarce settings, raise fundamental issues of human dignity and ecological integrity. From a legal perspective, and in the context of Foreign Direct Investment by Transnational Corporations in developing countries, they highlight the lacuna of a holistic international legal framework and its implementation. This book embodies a critique of the complex web of public international law principles on economics, human rights and the environment, and their convergence or lack thereof, related regional (South Asian) and domestic (Sri Lankan) legal arrangements, interventions of states and non-state actors towards just, equitable and sustainable development. It is a quest for a middle path in the multidisciplinary landscape of international law, development and North-South power dynamics; globalization of free trade and investment and of social and environmental interests; and salient aspects of the philosophical, socio-economic and legal fabric of South Asia, viewed against the evolving, controversial and elastic sphere of international relations and law where consensus has hitherto been an elusive dream.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Puvimanasinghe, Shyami

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Über Autor(innen)

Shyami Puvimanasinghe in this book presents an updated and adapted version of her thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands. A Masters graduate in Law from Harvard University, USA, and formerly a Senior Lecturer in Law at Colombo University, Sri Lanka, the author is currently a Research Associate in International Law, Human Rights, Health, Environment and Development in the non-governmental sector in Botswana.