The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Ben Saul is Professor of International Law and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Sydney. Ben has expertise on global counter-terrorism law, human rights, the law of armed conflict, and international criminal law. He has published 10 books, 75 scholarly articles, and hundreds of other publications and presentations, and his research has been used in national and international courts. Ben has taught law at Oxford, the Hague Academy of International Law and in China, India, Nepal and Cambodia, and has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Ben practises as a barrister in international and national courts, has advised various United Nations bodies and foreign governments, has delivered foreign aid projects, and often appears in the media. He has a doctorate in law from Oxford and honours degrees in Arts and Law from Sydney.Professor David Kinley holds the Chair in Human Rights Law at University of Sydney. He is also an Academic Panel member of Doughty Street Chambers in London, a member of the Australian Council for Human Rights, and was a founding member of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights. He is currently on the Faculty of Oxford/George Washington Universities ' International Human Rights Law Summer School and has previously held teaching positions at Cambridge University, ANU, University of New South Wales, Washington College of Law, American University, and Paris 1 (La Sorbonne). He was also the founding Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University (2000-2005). David was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in 2004, based in Washington DC, and the Herbert Smith Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge in 2008. He has written and edited eleven books and more than 100 articles, book chapters, reports and papers.Jacqueline Mowbray is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney. She is a graduate of the Universities of Queensland (BA LLB (Hons)), Melbourne (LLM) and Cambridge (LLM (Hons) PhD). Jacqueline has practised as a solicitor with Freehills in Melbourne and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert in London, and she teaches on the European Masters program in human rights, which is taught at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her particular area of interest is international law and legal theory, with a focus on international human rights law. She is currently working on a number of projects relating to international law and language policy, and the position of linguistic minorities under international law. Jacqueline also teaches in the area of commercial law and international commercial transactions.

A very useful, up-to-date, and well-researched source of information, providing detailed reasoning from a broad variety of cases and materials... This ICESCR Commentary can be recommended for scholars and practitioners.

• APPENDIX I: INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS 1966; APPENDIX II: ICESCR: RESERVATIONS AND DECLARATIONS; APPENDIX III: ICESCR: OBJECTIONS TO RESERVATIONS OR DECLARATIONS; APPENDIX IV: OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE ICESCR 2008; APPENDIX V: OPTIONAL PROTOCOL: RESERVATIONS AND DECLARATIONS; APPENDIX VI: RATIFICATION STATUS OF THE ICESCR AND OPTIONAL PROTOCOL (AS OF 2013); APPENDIX VII: ECOSOC RESOLUTION 1985/17 (1985) ESTABLISHING THE CESCR; APPENDIX VIII: CESCR, GUIDELINES ON TREATY-SPECIFIC DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLES 16 AND 17 OF THE ICESCR (2008); APPENDIX IX: CESCR, PROVISIONAL RULES OF PROCEDURE UNDER THE ICESCR (1989); APPENDIX X: CESCR, PROVISIONAL RULES OF PROCEDURE UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL (2012); APPENDIX XI: LIST OF CESCR GENERAL COMMENTS (1989-2013); APPENDIX XII: LIST OF CESCR CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS OR COMMENTS ON STATES (1980-2013)