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Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights (Law in Context) - Softcover

Book 10 of 82: Law in Context

Likosky, Michael B.

 
9780521676885: Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights (Law in Context)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521676886 ISBN 13: 9780521676885
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

From attacks on oil infrastructure in post-war reconstruction Iraq to the laying of gas pipelines in the Amazon Rainforest through indigenous community villages, infrastructure projects are sites of intense human rights struggles. Many state and non-state actors have proposed solutions for handling human rights problems in the context of specific infrastructure projects. Solutions have been admired for being lofty in principle; however, they have been judged wanting in practice. This book analyzes how human rights are handled in varied contexts and then assesses the feasibility of a common international institutional solution under the auspices of the United Nations to the alleged problem of the inability to translate human rights into practice.

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About the Author

Michael B. Likosky holds a D. Phil from Oxford University, a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and a B.A. from Vassar College. He is currently the Lecturer in International Economic Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His teaching areas include law and globalization, international economic law, contracts, and public international law. He has published three books on law and globalization: The Silicon Empire (2005); (ed.) Transnational Legal Processes (Cambridge, 2002); and (ed.) Privatising Development (2005).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521676886
ISBN 13 
9780521676885
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
242