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1 - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2022

Emma Luce Scali
Emma Luce Scali
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Birmingham City University
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This Chapter introduces the book’s premises and general approach to the discussion of the soverign debt-human rights relatioship, together with the book’s outline. It also discusses and defines legal human rights, economic and social rights as international human rights, an the concepts of neoliberalism, neoliberal epistemolgy and law’s neoliberalisation for the purposes of the analysis that follows in Chapters 2-5.

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sovereign debtlegal righthuman rightsneoliberalismausteritycrisisepistemologyeconomic and social rightsneoliberalisationHayek
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Sovereign Debt and Socio-Economic Rights Beyond Crisis
The Neoliberalisation of International Law
 , pp. 1 - 27
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Introduction
  • Emma Luce Scali, Birmingham City University
  • Book: Sovereign Debt and Socio-Economic Rights Beyond Crisis
  • Online publication: 24 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108625029.001
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  • Introduction
  • Emma Luce Scali, Birmingham City University
  • Book: Sovereign Debt and Socio-Economic Rights Beyond Crisis
  • Online publication: 24 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108625029.001
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  • Introduction
  • Emma Luce Scali, Birmingham City University
  • Book: Sovereign Debt and Socio-Economic Rights Beyond Crisis
  • Online publication: 24 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108625029.001
Available formats
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