Most Interesting 2020: Cotula, (Dis)integration in Global Resource Governance: Extractivism, Human Rights, and Investment Treaties

The fourteenth in our series "Most Interesting 2020":

Lorenzo Cotula, (Dis)integration in Global Resource Governance: Extractivism, Human Rights, and Investment Treaties (Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 431–454, June 2020)

I appreciate this article because it provides a comprehensive discussion of the inconsistencies that exist within and between national and international legal frameworks governing the exploitation of natural resources. The article contextualizes current controversies, for instance concerning the relationship between human rights and investment law, providing broader perspectives on divergent interests existing on the international, domestic and sub-national level, and identifying socio-economic linkages that are easy to miss when one studies legal questions within the boundaries of a single regime of law.

Johannes Hendrik Fahner
Researcher
University of Amsterdam
Attorney-at-Law