Human rights in the market place : the exploitation of rights protection by economic actors /
by Christopher Harding, Uta Kohl, and Naomi Salmon
- Aldershot, Hants, England : Ashgate, c2008
- xii, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Markets and the law .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-250) and index
A fracas in the cosmetics market : competing rights and the spectrum of economic actors -- The sun, Liverpudlians and'the truth' : a corporate right to human rights ? -- Profit in the beef industry and human health : consumer rights as human rights -- Taking the WTO to task at Seattle : basic rights protection as a legal strategy and the political and legal leverage of rights argument -- Antitrust recidivists as rights crusaders : fashioning producer rights in Europe -- The European laboratory : the construction of consumer rights in Europe -- Transatlantic trade wars : producer and consumer rights on the global stage -- Freedom of expression in the market place -- Rights talk in the market place : nonsense on stilts?