Ben Saul, David Kinley, Jacqueline Mowbray

Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is one of the most important human rights treaties in international law. This comprehensive collection of primary materials and analytical commentary is ideal reading for scholars, students, and practitioners working on issues of economic, cultural, and social rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 1358
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 174mm x 63mm
• Gewicht: 1860g
• ISBN-13: 9780199640300
• ISBN-10: 0199640300
• Artikelnr.: 39338790

Autorenporträt

Ben Saul is Professor of International Law and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Sydney. Ben has expertise on global counter-terrorism law, human rights, the law of armed conflict, and international criminal law. He has published 10 books, 75 scholarly articles, and hundreds of other publications and presentations, and his research has been used in national and international courts. Ben has taught law at Oxford, the Hague Academy of International Law and in China, India, Nepal and Cambodia, and has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Ben practises as a barrister in international and national courts, has advised various United Nations bodies and foreign governments, has delivered foreign aid projects, and often appears in the media. He has a doctorate in law from Oxford and honours degrees in Arts and Law from Sydney. Professor David Kinley holds the Chair in Human Rights Law at University of Sydney, and is the Law Faculty's Associate-Dean (International). He is also an Academic Panel member of Doughty Street Chambers in London. He has previously held positions at Cambridge University, The Australian National University, the University of New South Wales, Washington College of Law, American University, and most recently was the founding Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University (2000-2005). He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in 2004, based in Washington DC, and Herbert Smith Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge during the first half of 2008. He has written and edited eight books and more than 80 articles, book chapters, reports, and papers. Jacqueline Mowbray is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sydney. She also teaches on the European Regional Master's Degree in Democracy and Human Rights in South-East Europe, based in Sarajevo. She is a graduate of the Universities of Queensland (BA/LLB (Hons)), Melbourne (LLM) and Cambridge (LLM (Hons), PhD).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Article 1: The right of self-determination
Article 25: The right to freely utilize natural resources
3: Article 2(1): The principle of progressive realisation
4: Article 2(2): Non-discrimination
5: Article 2(3): Developing state exception
6: Article 3: Equality
7: Article 4: General limitations clause
Article 5: Prohibition of abuse of rights
Article 24: No prejudice to the United Nations
8: Article 6: The right to work
9: Article 7: Just and favourable conditions of work
10: Article 8: Trade union-related rights
11: Article 9: The right to social security
12: Article 10: Rights of families, mothers and children
13: Article 11: The right to an adequate standard of living
14: Article 12: The right to health
15: Article 13: The right to education
Article 14: Primary education
16: Article 15: Cultural Rights