Horizontal human rights law

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Knox, John H.
• 署名单位: Wake Forest University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-9300
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1-47
• 关键词: corporations; BUSINESS

摘要

Human rights have traditionally been seen as vertical, establishing rights for individuals and obligations for states. Recent proposals seek to reorient human rights law horizontally, imposing obligations directly on corporations and other private actors. These proposals fail to appreciate the horizontal effects of existing human rights law, and risk undermining its structure and opening the door to new restrictions on human rights.