
The Prospects of Common Concern of Humankind in International Law
Thomas Cottier(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 6. April 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
490 pages
978-1-108-79354-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Common Concern of Humankind today is central to efforts to bring about enhanced international cooperation in fields including, but not limited to, climate change. This book explores the expression's potential as a future legal principle. It sets out the origins of Common Concern, its differences to other common interest legal principles, and expounds the potential normative structure and effects of the principle, applying an approach of carrots and sticks in realizing goals defined as a Common Concern. Individual chapters test the principle in different legal fields, including climate technology diffusion, marine plastic pollution, human rights enforcement, economic inequality, migration, and monetary and financial stability. They confirm that basic obligations under the principle of 'Common Concern of Humankind' comprise not only that of international cooperation and duties to negotiate, but also of unilateral duties to act to enhance the potential of public international law to produce appropriate public goods.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Maps; 1 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-79354-4 (9781108793544)
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Content
List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Theory: 1. The principle of common concern of humankind Thomas Cottier; Part II. Case Studies: 2. Trade-related measures to spread low carbon technologies: a common concern based approach Zaker Ahmad; 3. Marine plastic pollution as a common concern of humankind Judith Schaeli; 4. Exploring the recognition of new common concerns of humankind: the example of the distribution of income and wealth within states Alexander Beyleveld; 5. Reshaping the law of economic sanctions for human rights enforcement: the potential of common concern of humankind Iryna Bogdanova; 6. Migration as a common concern of humankind Thomas Cottier and Rosa Maria Losada; 7. International monetary stability as a common concern of humankind Lucia Satragno; 8. Financial stability as a common concern of humankind Federico Lupo-Pasini; Part III. Epilogue: 9. Comments: The doctrinal approach of common concern Peter-Tobias Stoll, Duncan French and Oisin Suttle; 10. Comments: Extraterritoriality and common concern Cedric Ryngaert, Claus Zimmermann and Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer; Index.