Global Governance, Human Rights and International Law: Combating the Tragic Flaw (Routledge Research in International Law) - Hardcover

Mendes, Errol P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 036746327X ISBN 13: 9780367463274

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

This book offers a stimulating introduction to the links between areas of global governance, human rights global economy and international law. By drawing on a range of diverse subject areas, it argues that the foundations of global governance, human rights and international law are undermined by a conflict or ‘tragic flaw’, where insistence on absolute conceptions of state sovereignty are pitted against universally accepted principles of justice and human rights resulting in destructive self-interest for both the state and the global community. Following the election of President Donald Trump , the second edition will explores how we are witnessing a critical battle to ensure that human rights, international law and the beneficial aspects of globalization will still be relevant and applied in some of the critical institutions of global governance and in the operations of the global private sector. The second edition will focus on how States, institutions and global civil society will have to ramp up the struggle to fight this ‘tragic flaw’ that is now even more evident with the actions of the US and other authoritarian states, like China and Russia in this second decade of the 21st Century.

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About the Author

Errol P. Mendes is a lawyer, author, professor, and has been an advisor to governments, corporations, civil society groups, and the United Nations in the areas of international law human rights, and global governance. He is the author and/or editor of eleven books dealing with the subjects as diverse as global governance, international human rights, labour standards, the International Criminal Court, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He has also served as a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court in 2009. He was appointed as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School in 2013 and a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University in 2021. He is a full professor of law at the University of Ottawa and President of the International Commission of Jurists, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036746327X
• ISBN 13: 9780367463274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 302