Reading List for International law 2009

Faculty of Law, Makerere University

L315 Principles of International Law



Module: International Economic Law and International Human Rights:
Concurrency or Integration?


Peter J. Barnacle
March/April 2009

Reading List

1. Introduction: International Economic Law

(a) Overview
United Nations GA 3201: Declaration on the Establishment of a New Economic Order (1973)

United Nations GA 41/128: Declaration on the right to development (1986)

United Nations GA/10748: World Leaders Pledge to Reinvigorate ‘Global Partnership of Equals’ to End Poverty, Hunger, Underdevelopment in Africa, (2008)

Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD): The Paris Declaration (2005)
Jackson, Global Economics and International Economic Law in The Jurisprudence of GARR and the WTO (Cambridge University Press: 2000) at 3-14

(b) Public International Law

The IMF and the World Bank (IMF Factsheet, September 2008)

The World Bank Turns Up Criticism of the IMF (Washington Post, December 3, 1998)

The IMF and the World Trade Organization (IMF Factsheet, September 2006)

What are the main concerns and criticisms about the World Bank and the IMF? (Bretton Woods Project, August 2005)

Stiglitz, The Promise of Global Institutions, in Globalization and Its Discontents (Penguin Books, London: 2001) at 3-22


2/3. The International Financial Institutions (IFI)

(a) The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

What is the IMF? (IMF Factsheet, September 2006)

IMF Conditionality (IMF Factsheet, May 2008)

The Joint World Bank – IMF Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (IMF Factsheet, May 2007)

Debt Relief Under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative (IMF Factsheet, January 2009)

The Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy (IMF Factsheet, October 2008)

The Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (IMF Factsheet, January 2009)

The IMF and the Millennium Development Goals (IMF Factsheet, April 2008)

Climate Change, the Environment and Work of the IMF (IMF Factsheet, September 2008)

Uganda

Uganda: Letter of Intent, Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, and Technical Letter of Understanding (Government of Uganda, May 17, 2007)
http://www.imf.org/external/np/loi/2007/uga/051707.pdf

Uganda: Staff Assessment of Qualification for the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (IMF, December 8, 2005)
http://www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2005/uganda.pdf

Selassie: Beyond Macroeconomic Stability: The Quest For Industrialization in Uganda, IMF Working Paper WP/08/231, September 2008.[Excerpts]

International Monetary Fund: Uganda: Third Review under the Policy Support Instrument and Request for Waiver and Modification of Assessment Criteria, IMF Country Report No. 08/236 July 2008 [Excerpts]

International Monetary Fund: Kenya, Uganda, and United Republic of Tanzania: Selected Issues, IMF Country Report No. 08/33, October 2008.[Excerpts]

(b) The World Bank Group and Regional Banks

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD): Background (2009)

International Development Association (IDA): What is IDA? (2009)
International Finance Corporation: IFC in Brief (June 2008)

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency: About MIGA (October 2008)

World Bank: Synopsis of World Development Reports (1995-2005)

Overview: World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development (October 19, 2007)

Uganda

World Bank and International Finance Corporation: Doing Business 2009- Country Profile for Uganda [Excerpts]

International Development Association (IDA): Uganda Country Brief (2007)

International Development Association (IDA): Uganda Poverty Reduction Support Credit 7 Proposal (2008)

World Bank: Bujagali Hydropower Project (2008)


4. The Trade Regimes

(a) World Trade Organisation

· Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organisation

· The WTO in Brief
· Understanding the WTO: Chapter 7, The Organisation
· Understanding the WTO: Developing Countries and Least Developed Countries

· Ten Benefits of the WTO Trading System
· Ten Common Misunderstandings about the WTO

· Wallach and Woodall, The WTO and the Developing World: Do as We Say, Not as We Did, in Whose Trade Organization (New Press, New York: 2004) at 158-188

· Appellate Body: Annual Report January 2008 (Annex 6 – Excerpts)

· Trade Policy Review: Uganda - Report by Government (November 21 2001)

Treaties

· GATT 1947 Articles I, III, XX and XXI
· WTO: United States – Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products (“Shrimp – Turtle” case), Report of the Appellate Body 12 October 1998 (WT/DS58/AB/R)

· Agreement on Agriculture Articles 1-4, 15, 16 and ANNEX 2

· Agreement on Textiles and Clothing Articles 1, 2 and 9

· GATS Articles II, IV, V, XIV and XIV bis
· TRIPS Articles 1, 3, 4, 8, 41, 42 and 43

Regional Trade Agreements

· The Changing Landscape of Regional Trade Agreements: 2006 Update (WTO Discussion Paper No. 12, 2007) [Excerpts]

Other Trade Arrangements

· Sorenson, Bilateral Investment Treaties and Disputes (2001)

· United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD): Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)

· European Commission: Generalised System of Preferences (2009)

· Gruszczynski: The EC General System of Preferences and International Obligations in the Area of Trade – The Never-Ending Story.

· Office of the United States Trade Representative: Generalized System of Preferences

· Office of the United States Trade Representative: 2008 AGOA Report [Excerpts]




5/6. Integrating International Economic Law and International Human Rights

Selected International Human Rights Instruments
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN, 1948)

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (UN, 1966)

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESR) (UN, 1966)

ILO: List of Conventions
· Uganda (31 Ratified, 30 in force)

· ILO: ILO Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (1998)

· ILO Conventions
· C87 Freedom of Association, 1948 (Uganda 2005)
· C98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining, 1949 (Uganda 1963)
· C29 Forced Labour, 1930 (Uganda 1963)
· C105 Abolition of Forced Labour,1957 (Uganda 1963)
· C138 Minimum Age Requirements, 1973 (Uganda 2003)
· C182 Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (Uganda 2001)
· C100 Equal Remuneration, 1951 (Uganda 2005)
· C11 Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958 (Uganda 2005)


Integrating IEL and IHR Law
Taillant: Human Rights and the International Financial Institutions, The Sustainable Justice 2002 (Montreal) – Part II, III, V and VI (see above)

Inter-American Commission of Human Rights: International Financial Institutions and Human Rights Law (March 2007)

Bachand and Rousseau, International Investment and Human Rights: Political and Legal Issues, (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, Montreal: 2003)
· Petersmann: Human Rights, Constitutionalism and the World Trade Organization: Challenges for World Trade Organization Jurisprudence and Civil Society, Leiden Journal of International Law 19 (2006) 633-687.

· Hoogvelt, Africa: Exclusion and Containment of Anarchy, in Globalization and the Postcolonial World, 2nd ed. (Palgrave, London: 2001) at 173-196

· Trebilcock and Howse, Trade and Labour Rights, in The Regulation of International Trade, 2nd ed. (Routledge, London: 1999) at 441-463

· IFC Exclusion List and IFC Performance Standard No. 2: Labour and Working Conditions (April 30, 2006)

· European Commission: Trade and Labour Standards
· Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments

· UNCTAD, Case Study on Uganda (May 2006)

· Fields, International Labor Standards and Decent Work: Perspectives from the Developing World, in Flanagan and Gould, ed. International Labour Standards (Stanford University Press: 2003) at 61-79

· Office of the United States Trade Representative: Labour
· Freeman, A hard-headed look at labour standards, in International labour standards and economic independence (International Labour Organisation: Institute for Labour Studies, Geneva: 1994), at 79-92
· Sengenberger, International labour standards in the globalized economy: obstacles and opportunities for achieving progress, in Craig and Lynk, ed., Globalization and the Future of Labour Law (Cambridge University Press: 2006) at 331-355
· Cornish, Faraday, Verma, Securing gender justice: the challenge facing international labour law, in Craig and Lynk, ed., Globalization and the Future of Labour Law (Cambridge University Press: 2006)at 377-408