Trading Away Human Rights

Authors

Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Columbia Law School, Columbia Center on Sustainable DevelopmentFollow
Olivier De Schutter, University of Louvain

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2014

Abstract

Trade negotiators in Singapore recently failed to finalize a deal on the long-awaited Trans-Pacific Partnership; they will soon have another chance to complete what would be the world’s largest regional free-trade agreement. But, given serious concerns that the TPP will fail to consider important human-rights implications, that is no cause for celebration.

Disciplines

Human Rights Law | International Humanitarian Law | International Law | International Trade Law | Law | Securities Law

Recommended Citation

Kaitlin Y. Cordes & Olivier De Schutter, Trading Away Human Rights, Project Syndicate, January 7, 2014 (2014).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sustainable_investment_staffpubs/138