Local Engagement with International Economic Law and Human Rights

Edited by Ljiljana Biukovic, Associate Professor of Law and Pitman B. Potter, Professor of Law, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada

Contents:

Introduction
Ljiljana Biukovic and Pitman Potter

Part I: Re-imagining local engagement with international law
1. International Trade, Human Rights and Policy Space
Thomas Cottier

2. Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism: Linking Local Engagement with International Economic Law and Human Rights
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

Part II: Structural Aspects of Trade and Investment
3. Transparency Evolution: More than the Right to Know
Ljiljana Biukovic

4. Challenging an Investment Agreement in Canada: Hupacasath First Nation’s Application for Judicial Review against the CCFIPPA
Naayeli E. Ramirez-Espinosa

5. The Impact of Mexico’s 2011 Human Rights Constitutional Amendment on Arbitral Practice: A View from Local Actors
Erika Cedillo

Part III: The Impact of Communities and Local Culture
6. Demarcating the International Community: Where do International Practices Come from?
Mor Mitrani

7. Local Communities, Cultural Heritage and International Economic Law
Valentina Vadi

8. Identity Matters: The Enforcement of Global Human Rights Treaties by European Union's Trade Instruments
Moshe Hirsch

9. Observing the Small Gestures: Human Rights Vectors in the Vietnamese Trade Law Environment
Lisa Toohey

Part IV: Dilemmas of Local Performance: The Case of China
10. Coordinating Human Rights and Trade Policy in China: The Case of Environmental Protection
Pitman B. Potter

11. Structuring China’s Engagement with International Human Rights: The Case of Wage Protection Law and Practice
Sarah Biddulph

Index









S. Biddulph