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.
Edited by:
Thomas Cottier
Associate editor:
Zaker Ahmad
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 702g
ISBN: 9781108793544
ISBN 10: 1108793541
Pages: 489
Publication Date: 06 April 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 Schäli; 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.
Thomas Cottier, former Managing Director of the World Trade Institute, is Professor Emeritus of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern. He has published widely in the field of international economic law, with a particular focus on constitutional theory and general principles of law, trade regulation, and intellectual property.
