Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law Contemporary Issues and Challenges

I. Introduction
1: Gilles Giacca, Christophe Golay, and Eibe Riedel: Addressing the Issues and Challenges Confronting ESC Rights
II. Challenges in the Protection of ESC Rights in Times of Crisis
2: Gilles Giacca: The Protection of Socio-Economic Rights in Armed Conflict: Challenges and Prospects
3: Mary Dowell-Jones: The Bond Markets and Socio-Economic Rights: Understanding the Challenge of Austerity
4: Ignazio Saiz and Sally-Anne Way: The Global Economic Crisis and its Implications for Economic and Social Rights
5: Olivier De Schutter: Companies and ESC Rights: The Need for a New Deal?
III. Interrelationship of ESC Rights with other Legal Regimes
6: Hans Morten Haugen: Trade and Investment Agreements: What Role for ESC Rights in International Economic Law?
7: Holger P. Hestermeyer: ESC Rights in the World Trade Organization: Legal Aspects and Reality
8: Jorge E. Viñuales and Stéphanie Chuffard: From the Other Shore: ESC Rights from an International Environmental Law Perspective
9: Michelle Foster: International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights
10: Larissa van den Herik: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - International Criminal Law's Blind Spot?
IV. Challenges of Non-discrimination and equality in ESC rights
11: Ioana Cismas: Revisiting the Intersection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Civil and Political Rights
12: Sandra Ratjen: Non-Discrimination, Substantive Equality, and the realization of ESC Rights for All
13: Christine Chinkin: ESC Rights and Gender
V. New Concepts and Tools to Measure the Progressive Realization of ESC Rights
14: Eibe Riedel: Indicators and Benchmarks - A Golden Metwand for ESC Rights Monitoring?
15: Aoife Nolan: Budget Analysis and Economic and Social Rights
16: Simon Walker: Human Rights Impact Assessments: Emerging Practice and Challenges
17: Tahmina Karimova: Obligation of International Assistance and Cooperation in Development Cooperation: A Legal Map with Areas of Shade and Light
18: Sigrun Skogly: 'Available Resources' and Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations: the Qualitative Challenge to International Assistance and Cooperation
VI. New Trends in Monitoring ESC Rights at the International and National Level
19: Nico Schrijver: The International Court of Justice and ESC Rights
20: Malcolm Langford: New Trends in National Jurisprudence on ESC Rights
21: Duncan Wilson and Allison Corkery: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Monitoring ESC Rights
22: Frank Haldemann and Rachelle Kouassi: ESC Rights and Transitional Justice

Eibe Riedel is Emeritus Chair of German and Comparative Public Law and European and International Law at the University of Mannheim, Germany, Swiss Human Rights Chair at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva. He studied law and theology at King's College London, and law at the University of Kiel. He obtained his Dr. iuris in 1974 and Dr. iur. habil. in 1983. He has been a Professor of Public Law and International Law at the University of Mainz, then at the University of Marburg, then at Mannheim. Prof. Riedel has recently been appointed a Judge at the Hague Court of Arbitration. He is a Director of the Inland Navigation Law Institute, and the Director of the Institute of Medical Law, Bioethics and Public Health. He was Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Mannheim from 1996-2000.

Dr Gilles Giacca is a Research Fellow at the Law Faculty and Co-ordinator of the Oxford Martin School Human Rights for Future Generations programme. He holds a MA from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva and a LLM from the University of Essex and holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Geneva and IHEID. Between 2006 and 2012, Gilles Giacca was teaching assistant and then research fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law. Gilles has advised States, international organizations and NGOs on matters of international law. He has also provided training on international law to diplomats and practitioners. His teaching interests include the law of armed conflict and international human rights law.

Dr Christophe Golay is Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. From 2001 to 2008, he was the Legal Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He teaches courses on ESC rights, the right to food, and human rights and development in different universities. He has published extensively on ESC rights in general and the right to food in particular.

Contributors: 
Christine Chinkin - London School of Economics and Political Science 
Stéphanie Chuffard - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies 
Ioana Cismas - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies 
Allison Corkery - Center for Economic and Social Rights 
Olivier De Schutter - UN Special Raporteur on the right to food, Columbia Law School 
Mary Dowell-Jones - University of Nottingham 
Michelle Foster - Melbourne Law School 
Frank Haldemann - Geneva Academy 
Hans Morten Haugen - Diakonhjemmet Høgskole University 
Holger P. Hestermeyer - Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law 
Tahmina Karimova - Geneva Academy of International humanitarian law and human rights 
Rachelle Kouassi - Geneva Academy 
Malcolm Langford - Norwegian Centre for Human Rights 
Aoife Nolan - Nottingham University 
Sandra Ratjen - International Commission of Jurists 
Ignazio Saiz - Executive Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights 
Nico Schrijver - Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University 
Sigrun Skogly - Lancaster University 
Larissa van den Herik - Leiden University 
Jorge E. Viñuales - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies 
Simon Walker - UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 
Sally-Anne Way - University of Essex 
Duncan Wilson - Scottish Human Rights Commission