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Author Harding, Christopher, 1951-

Title Human rights in the market place : the exploitation of rights protection by economic actors / Christopher Harding, Uta Kohl and Naomi Salmon
Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages)
Series Markets and the law
Markets and the law.
Contents A fracas in the cosmetics market : competing rights and the spectrum of economic actors -- The sun, Liverpudlians and "the truth" : a corporate right to human rights? -- Profit in the beef industry and human health : consumer rights as human rights -- Taking the WTO to task at Seattle : basic rights protection as a legal strategy and the political and legal leverage of rights argument -- Antitrust recidivists as rights crusaders : fashioning producer rights in Europe -- The European laboratory : the construction of consumer rights in Europe -- Transatlantic trade wars : producer and consumer rights on the global stage -- Freedom of expression in the market place -- Rights talk in the market place : nonsense on stilts?
Summary The ideology of human rights protection has gained considerable momentum and appears to be an effective lever for bringing about legal change. This book analyzes this strategy in economic and commercial policy and considers the transportation of the 'public law' discourse of basic human rights protection into the 'commercial law' context of economic policy, business activity and corporate behaviour
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human rights -- Economic aspects -- Europe
Consumer protection -- Law and legislation -- Europe
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Consumer protection -- Law and legislation
Human rights -- Economic aspects
Europe
Genre/Form Computer network resources
Form Electronic book
Author Kohl, Uta.
Salmon, Naomi.
LC no. 2008016615
ISBN 9780754692713
075469271X
9781315587530
131558753X