Foreign investment, human rights and the environment : : a perspective from South Asia on the role of public interntional law for development / / by Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe.

• Author: Puvimanasinghe, Shyami Fernando.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Nijhoff eBook titles 2007
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Events like the Bhopal disaster, the sale of products harmful to human health and safety, and child labour, especially in resource-scarce settings, raise fundamental issues of human dignity and ecological integrity. From a legal perspective, and in the context of Foreign Direct Investment by Transnational Corporations in developing countries, they highlight the lacuna of a holistic international legal framework and its implementation. This book embodies a critique of the complex web of public international law principles on economics, human rights and the environment, and their convergence or lack thereof, related regional (South Asian) and domestic (Sri Lankan) legal arrangements, interventions of states and non-state actors towards just, equitable and sustainable development. It is a quest for a middle path in the multidisciplinary landscape of international law, development and North-South power dynamics; globalization of free trade and investment and of social and environmental interests; and salient aspects of the philosophical, socio-economic and legal fabric of South Asia, viewed against the evolving, controversial and elastic sphere of international relations and law where consensus has hitherto been an elusive dream.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe -- Chapter One. Introduction / Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe -- Chapter Two. The Context and Concepts of This Study / Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe -- Chapter Three. Transnational Corporations and Public International Law / Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe -- Chapter Four. International Law Standards: Three Dimensions / Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe -- Chapter Five. The Roles of Home and Host States / Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe -- Chapter Six. Regional and National Arrangements / Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe -- Chapter Seven. The Interventions of Non-State Actors / Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe -- Chapter Eight. Reflections / Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe -- Bibliography / Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe -- Index / Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe.