The Prospects of Common Concern of Humankind in International Law

Cottier-Holzer, Thomas; Ahmad, Zaker (eds.) (2021). The Prospects of Common Concern of Humankind in International Law. Cambridge University Press 10.1017/9781108878739

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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.

Item Type:

Book (Edited Volume)

Division/Institute:

02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > World Trade Institute
10 Strategic Research Centers > World Trade Institute

UniBE Contributor:

Cottier, Thomas

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 380 Commerce, communications & transportation
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law

ISBN:

9781108878739

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pablo Rahul Das

Date Deposited:

16 Jul 2021 10:04

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:34

Publisher DOI:

10.1017/9781108878739

Related URLs:

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/156498

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