Public Procurement and Human Rights: Opportunities, Risks and Dilemmas for the State as Buyer - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1788116305 ISBN 13 : 9781788116305

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

Important new policy frameworks call on governments to ensure respect for human rights by businesses and to secure a transition to sustainable consumption. Public procurement accounts for a significant share of the global economy, and nearly 30% of government expenditure across OECD countries. But what are the obligations of the state to protect human rights when it acts as a buyer? And how can procurement be used to drive respect for human rights amongst government suppliers? This engaging book reflects on these important questions, from the dual disciplinary perspectives of public procurement and human rights.

Through legal analysis and practice-focused case studies, the expert contributors interrogate the role and potential of public procurement as a driver for responsible business conduct. Highlighting the character of public procurement as an interface for multiple normative regimes and competing policies, the book advances a compelling case for a shift to a new paradigm of sustainable procurement that embraces human rights as crucial to realising international policies such as those embodied in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Topical and thought-provoking, Public Procurement and Human Rights will be an essential read for academics and students of human rights law, public procurement law, and business and human rights, as well as practitioners in public procurement and sustainability, and government officials.

Contributors include: B.S. Claeson, E. Conlon, C. Emberson, P. Göthberg, O. Martin-Ortega, A. Marx, C. Methven O'Brien, C. Nicholas, O. Outhwaite, G. Quinot, D. Russo, A. Sanchez-Graells, J. Sinclair, R. Stumberg, A. Trautrims, N. Vander Meulen, S. Williams-Elegbe

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edited by Olga Martin-Ortega, Professor of International Law and Director of the Business, Human Rights and the Environment Research Group (BHRE), School of Law, University of Greenwich, UK and Claire Methven O’Brien, Reader in Law, School of Law, University of Dundee, UK

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788116305
• ISBN 13: 9781788116305
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Martin-Ortega Olga, Methven O’Brien Claire
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