States, Human Rights, and Distant Strangers

This book combines legal and philosophical perspectives to address the question of whether states are bound by human rights when they act with effects on people abroad - states' extraterritorial human rights obligations (EHRO).

Autorentext

Angela Müller is Head of AlgorithmWatch CH and Head of Policy and Advocacy at AlgorithmWatch. Before writing her PhD thesis on extraterritorial human rights obligations at the University of Zurich, she obtained an MA in Political and Economic Philosophy from the University of Berne. During her academic career, she was a visiting researcher at Columbia University, New York, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Inhalt

1. Introduction Part I: Legal Framework 2. Fundamental Rights Protection in Domestic Constitutions 3. Fundamental Rights Protection at the Supranational Level: The Case of the European Union 4. International Human Rights Law 5. Conclusion: The Legal Status of Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations Part II: Ethical Framework and Normative Justifiability 6. Setting the Scene 7. Statist Objections to Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations 8. A Justificatory Theory of Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations Part III: From Normative Justification to Legal Implementation 9. Translating Ethical Principles to Legal Interpretation 10. The Interpretation of Jurisdiction 11. Concluding Remarks