University News Last updated 02 February 2022
Dr Emma Luce Scali, a Lecturer in Law at BCU, has contributed to The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations, an essential text for scholars and practitioners working in human rights law.
Extraterritorial human rights obligations (ETOs) constitute the human rights obligations that countries have beyond their national borders towards people living in other countries, and the handbook covers seven key themes of these obligations.
The Handbook, which was published on 24 December 2021, provides a forward-looking perspective of how ETOs might come to be more fully recognised, outlining shortcomings but also best state practices.
ETOs and sovereign debt
Dr Scali’s chapter examines the nature and relevance of ETOs in the specific realm of sovereign debt. It also provides a more general overview of sovereign debt’s human rights implications, at a time when a growing number of states, including several advanced economies, increasingly rely on debt, global financial markets, and international institutions to fund their sovereign functions.
Dr Scali says:
‘I hope the chapter will prove a useful resource for academics, practitioners and students interested in the subject-matter, and a first steppingstone to a broader scholarly discussion of ETOs and sovereign debt.’
Informing education and practice
Dr Scali’s chapter forms part of a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the cutting edge of current knowledge on extraterritorial human rights obligations.
The Handbook represents an authoritative and essential reference text for scholars and students of human rights and human rights law, and more broadly, of international law and international relations as well as to those working in international economic law, development studies, peace and conflict studies, environmental law and migration.
It builds insights gained from state practice to identify gaps in the literature and points to future avenues of inquiry.
I am very grateful to the editors for the opportunity to explore, for the first time in this remarkable Handbook, the potential implications of ETOs for the human rights issues raised by sovereign debt.
‘I am very grateful to the editors for the opportunity to explore, for the first time in this remarkable Handbook, the potential implications of ETOs for the human rights issues raised by sovereign debt.’
The Handbook was edited by Mark Gibney, Gamze Erdem Türkelli, Markus Krajewski, and Wouter Vandenhole. It is is available to purchase here, and can be viewed via open access.
The official launch event for the book takes place on February 11, featuring insightful talks from the editors and a Q&A session.