New Book: "The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap"

The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap

Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations

Joyce De Coninck

Can the EU be held legally responsible for contributions to unlawful human rights harms separately from its Member States? Rather than assess the EU’s contribution to human rights violations, the book asks if such conduct can be legally contested before a court of law. It takes a two-part approach: firstly, it analyses the theoretical international and EU human rights responsibility regime. Secondly, it applies this regime to four case studies looking at international border management. This allows it to establish a theory of ‘relational human rights responsibility’ in order to hold the EU responsible for its complicity in human rights harms.

Joyce De Coninck is a post-doctoral researcher affiliated with Ghent University, Belgium, and a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University, USA.

Nov 2024   |   9781509977352   |   336pp   |   Hbk   |    RRP: £85

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