Foreign Investment, Human Rights and the Environment: A Perspective from South Asian on THe Role of Public International Law fpr Development / by Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe - The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007. - xxxvi, 284p.; 25cm.

Includes Bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Context and Concepts of This Study
Chapter 3. Transnational Corporations and Public International Law
Chapter 4. International Law Standards: Three Dimensions
Chapter 5. The Roles of Home and Host States
Chapter 6. Regional and National Arrangements
Chapter 7. The Interventions of Non-State Actors
Chapter 8. Reflections
Bibliography
Index

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. (Source: WorldCat)

9789004156869


Economic development
Environmental law South Asia
Environmental law
International Foreign direct investment
Human rights South Asia Investments
Human rights Foreign Law and legislation Investments

341.759 / PUV