The course offers an analysis of international law regimes, namely human rights law, intellectual property rights and environmental regime and their interlinkages, as well as their embeddedness in philosophical (human rights, environmental regime) and economic (IPRs) discourses that shape the nature of international legal regulations and determine, in turn, the efficiency of the markets. Special focus is on the dominant actors of globalisation - multinational corporations and their legal regulation. The course provides an in-depth analysis of policies within the inclusive understanding of sustainability, encapsulating not only the environmental criteria but also the normative ideal of the reverence for life (the right to health, access to medicine) and the enhancement of life itself and its quality (the right to life, underlying determinants of health). The importance of the theoretical underpinning of concepts and discourses is revealed in impact analysis of campaigns and selected case studies and their efficiency in bringing about a desirable change. The course is interdisciplinary in nature, however, prior knowledge of concepts from law, philosophy or economics is not required.
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Allen, S. (2019). International Law. London: Pearson, 4th edition.
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Cullet, P. (2005). Intellectual Property Law and Sustainable Development. New Dehli: LexisNexis.
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De Schutter, O. (2010). International Human Rights Law. Cases, Materials, Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Dupuy, P. M., Vinuales, J. E. (2018). International Environment Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Goodstein, E. S., Polansky, S. (2020). Economics and the Environment. Minesota: Wiley, 9th edition.
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Muchlinski, P. (2007). Multinational Enterprises and Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edition.
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Špalek, J. (2011). Veřejné statky: Teorie a experiment. Praha: C.H, Beck, 224 s. Edice Ekonomie, 1. vyd.
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