The Prospects of Common Concern of Humankind in International Law

Description

The Common Concern of Humankind today is central to efforts to bring about enhanced international cooperation in fields including, but not limited to, climate change. This book explores the expression's potential as a future legal principle. It sets out the origins of Common Concern, its differences to other common interest legal principles, and expounds the potential normative structure and effects of the principle, applying an approach of carrots and sticks in realizing goals defined as a Common Concern. Individual chapters test the principle in different legal fields, including climate technology diffusion, marine plastic pollution, human rights enforcement, economic inequality, migration, and monetary and financial stability. They confirm that basic obligations under the principle of 'Common Concern of Humankind' comprise not only that of international cooperation and duties to negotiate, but also of unilateral duties to act to enhance the potential of public international law to produce appropriate public goods. 04.0_pp_v_vi_Contents 05.0_pp_vii_viii_Figures 06.0_pp_ix_xii_Contributors 07.0_pp_xiii_xvi_Preface 08.0_pp_xvii_xviii_Acknowledgements 09.0_pp_xix_xxii_Abbreviations 10.0_pp_1_92_Theory 10.1_pp_3_92_The_Principle_of_Common_Concern_of_Humankind 11.0_pp_93_428_Case_Studies 11.1_pp_95_152_Trade-Related_Measures_to_Spread_Low-Carbon_Technologies 11.2_pp_153_198_Marine_Plastic_Pollution_as_a_Common_Concern_of_Humankind 11.3_pp_199_246_Exploring_the_Recognition_of_New_Common_Concerns_of_Humankind 11.4_pp_247_291_Reshaping_the_Law_of_Economic_Sanctions_for_Human_Rights_Enforcement 11.5_pp_292_346_Migration_as_a_Common_Concern_of_Humankind 11.6_pp_347_399_International_Monetary_Stability_as_a_Common_Concern_of_Humankind 11.7_pp_400_428_Financial_Stability_as_a_Common_Concern_of_Humankind 12.0_pp_429_460_Epilogue 12.1_pp_431_446_Comments 12.2_pp_447_460_Comments 13.0_pp_461_468_Index