da.conference 2024 | Panel I: Trade and Human Rights

Panel I: Trade and Human Rights
Chair: Robert Heiling (Director Trade & Investment Policy, Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy)
Human Rights Within the WTO Legal System
Gabrielle Marceau (Senior Counsellor, Research Division (ERSD), World Trade Organization; Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva)
Human Rights Conditionality in FTAs
Werner Zdouc (Director em., Knowledge and Information Management, World Trade Organization)
Invoking Human Rights in Trade Dispute Settlement
Peter-Tobias Stoll (Professor for Public and Public International Law and Head of the Department for International Economic and Environmental Law, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
IP in International Trade and Human Rights Demands
Siva Thambisetty (Associate Professor of Law, London School of Economics LSE)
Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction by Robert Heiling
00:07:02 Presentation by Gabrielle Marceau
00:26:58 Presentation by Werner Zdouc
00:49:58 Presentation by Peter-Tobias Stoll
01:17:12 Presentation by Siva Thambisetty
01:44:30 Q&A with the moderator
The tortuous relationship between economics and human rights was already on the mind of participants in the Vienna Conference 30 years ago. Amongst others, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action stressed the fulfillment of the right to development "so as to meet equitably the developmental and environmental needs of present and future generations" as well as the need to "help alleviate the external debt burden of developing countries". It is accordingly hardly surprising that the relationship between international human rights law and international economic law has captured the interest of both researchers and practitioners to an ever larger extent. Whether it is trade law, international investment law or international finance and monetary law: every area of international economic law affects the enjoyment and full realization of human rights. This conference proposed a stock-taking of the full breadth of the relationship between international economic law and international human rights law and inquired to what extent the relationship should no longer just be conceptualized as one of regime conflict, but whether human rights can be turned into a vehicle to resolve and addressed particularly problematic issues raised in the area of international economic law.
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