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Daria Davitti, Investment and Human Rights in Armed Conflict – Charting an Elusive Intersection, Hart Publishing, 2019, 288 pp., ISBN 9781509911660 (hb), £70.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2020

Paolo Vargiu
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , December 2020 , pp. 1049 - 1051
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Lecturer in Law, University of Leicester [paolo.vargiu@le.ac.uk].

References

1 See recently J. Fahner and M. Happold, ‘The Human Rights Defence in International Investment Arbitration: Exploring the Limits of Systemic Integration’, (2019) 68(3) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 741–59; N. Zugliani, ‘Human Rights in International Investment Law: the 2016 Morocco-Nigeria Bilateral Investment Treaty’, (2019) 68(3) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 761–70; J. Perelman, ‘Human Rights, Investment and the Rights-ification of Development: the Practice of “Human Rights Impact Assessments” in large-scale Foreign Investments in Natural Resources’, in K. Young (ed.), The Future of Economic and Social Rights (2019), at 434–69; F. Baetens, ‘Invoking Human Rights’, in M. Scheinin (ed.), Human rights norms in “other” international courts (2019), at 227–62; E. de Brabandere, ‘Human rights and international investment law’, in M. Krajewski and R. Hoffmann (eds.), Research Handbook on Foreign Direct Investment (2019), at 619–45; Y. Radi (ed.), Research Handbook on Human Rights and Investment (2018).

2 See generally J. Lacroix and J. Pranchère, Human Rights on Trial: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights (2018); J. Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism (2019); D. Brinks, J. Dehm and K. Engle, ‘Introduction: human rights and economic inequality’, (2019) 10 Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 363–75; J. Dehm, ‘Righting Inequality: Human Rights Responses to Economic Inequality in the United Nations’, (2019) 10 Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 443–59; J. Dehm, ‘Highlighting inequalities in the histories of human rights: Contestations over justice, needs and rights in the 1970s’, (2018) 31 Leiden Journal of International Law 871–95; B. Golder, ‘On the genealogy of human rights: an essay on nostalgia’, (2016) 22(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 17–36.

3 M. Sornarajah, Resistance and Change in the International Law on Foreign Investment (2015).

4 See also Q. Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018), at 21–145.

5 D. Davitti, Investment and Human Rights in Armed Conflict (2019), at 45–9, 106, 229.

6 Ibid., at 3.

7 Ibid., at 4.

8 Ibid., at 178–85.

9 See also B. Simma, ‘Foreign Investment Arbitration: A Place for Human Rights?’, (2011) 60 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 573, at 577–8.

10 A. Gramsci, ‘Odio gli indifferenti’, La città futura, 11 February 1917; an English translation is available at overland.org.au/2013/03/i-hate-the-indifferent/ (acessed 22 April 2020).

11 Davitti, D., Investment and Human Rights in Armed Conflict (2019), chs. 3 and 4CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

12 Ibid., at 230–1.

13 See generally D. Schneiderman, Constitutionalizing Economic Globalization: Investment Rules and Democracy’s Promise (2008); S. Pahuja and A. Saunders, ‘Rival Worlds and the Place of the Corporation in International Law’, in J. von Bernstorff and P. Dann (eds.), The Battle for International Law in the Decolonization Era (2019).