Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges

I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Development of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law II. CHALLENGES IN THE PROTECTION OF ESC RIGHTS IN TIMES OF CRISIS 2. The Sovereign Bond Markets and Socio-Economic Rights: Understanding the Challenge of Austerity 3. Economic and Social Rights in the 'Great Recession': Towards a Human Rights-Centered Economic Policy in Times of Crisis 4. Realising Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights for All 5. Gender and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights III. INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION OF ESC RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS 6. The Nature and Meaning of 'International Assistance and Cooperation' under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 7. Corporations and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights IV. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ESC RIGHTS AND OTHER LEGAL REGIMES 8. Trade and Investment Agreements: What Role for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in international Economic Law? 9. Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in the World Trade Organization: Legal Aspects and Practice 10. From the Other Shore: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights from an International Environmental Law Perspective 11. The Relationship between Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and International Humanitarian Law 12. Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: International Criminal Law's Blind Spot? V. NEW CONCEPTS AND TOOLS TO MEASURE THE PROGRESSIVE REALIZATION OF ESC RIGHTS 13. Budget Analysis and Economic and Social Rights 14. Human Rights Impact Assessments: Emerging Practice and Challenges VI. TRENDS IN THE JUSTICIABILITY AND MONITORING OF ESC RIGHTS AT THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL 15. Judicial Review in National Courts: Recognition and Responsiveness 16. The Intersection of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and Civil and Political Rights 17. Building Bridges: National Human Rights Institutions and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 18. Transitional Justice Without Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights?