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The Philanthropic Community and International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2023

Julia Emtseva
Julia Emtseva*
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Research Fellow.
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In my contribution today, I will focus on the role of the philanthropic community in promoting international law. For at least a century, philanthropists, mainly from the Global North, have been engaged in the discussions of the development of international law and its principles and sometimes, they even shaped these discussions. Yet, the contributions by the philanthropic community very often stay in the shadows, especially among international lawyers. Private foundations have been increasingly influential and very often if not for their support, we might not have seen the flourishing of some international institutions or international legal concepts. Here are a few examples.

Type
Where's the Community? Contours, Place, and the Role of Communities in International Law and Participatory Governance
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 116 , 2022 , pp. 29 - 32
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law

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Footnotes

This panel was convened at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 7, 2022 by its moderator, Yousuf Aftab of Enodo Rights, who introduced the speakers: Elena Baylis of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Julia Emtseva of the Max Planck Institute; Ezequiel Heffes of Geneva Call; and Wai Wai Nu of Women's Peace Network.

References

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2 United Nations Headquarters Building, New York, More Travel Tips, at http://travel-tips.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/holiday-travel-tips-new-york-ny-United-nations-headquarters-UN-HQ-building.htm.

3 A Conversation with Jonathan Fanton: Advancing International Justice, MacArthur Found. (May 29, 2018), at https://www.macfound.org/press/40-years-40-stories/conversation-jonathan-fanton-international-justice.

4 International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty Report, The Responsibility to Protect ( Dec. 2001), at https://web.archive.org/web/20070731161527/http://www.iciss-ciise.gc.ca/report2-en.asp.

5 A Conversation with Jonathan Fanton, supra note 3.

6 Id.

7 See, e.g., Gaëtan Cliquennois, European Human Rights Justice and Privatisation: The Growing Influence of Foreign Private Funds (2020).

8 See, e.g., Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice, Ford Found., at https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/challenging-inequality/gender-racial-and-ethnic-justice/criminal-justice.

9 See, e.g., GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance, at https://www.gavi.org.

10 See, e.g., United Nations Economic and Social Council Event, Partnering with the Philanthropic Community to Promote Education for All, at https://www.un.org/ecosoc/en/content/%E2%80%9Cpartnering-philanthropic-community-promote-education-all%E2%80%9D.

11 See, e.g., UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, Human Rights Philanthropy: Past, Present, and Future Challenges Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, Hunter College, New York (Apr. 4, 2022), at https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2022/04/human-rights-philanthropy-past-present-and-future-challenges-roosevelt-house.

12 Id.

13 Id.

14 GA Res. 44/40, The Parlous State of Poverty Eradication. Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, para. 75 (Nov. 19, 2020).