Economic Liberties and Human Rights

Jahel Queralt is a Serra Hunter Lecturer in Law at Pompeu Fabra University. Previously, she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies Justitia Amplificata at the Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt and at the Ethik Zentrum at the University of Zurich. Her research interests include liberalism, distributive justice, productive justice and human rights. Her work has appeared in journals such as Law and Philosophy, Ratio Juris, and Analyse und Kritik.Bas van der Vossen is Associate Professor in the Smith Institute of Political Economy and Philosophy, and the Philosophy Department at Chapman University. His research is in political philosophy. He’s the co-author of In Defense of Openness, with Jason Brennan (2018) and Debating Humanitarian Intervention, with Fernando Tesón (2017) and co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism (Routledge, 2017). He is currently an Associate Editor of the journal Social Philosophy and Policy. Bas earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford.

• 1. Introduction Jahel Queralt and Bas van der VossenPart I: Economic Liberties and International Law2. Property Rights as Human RightsJosé Alvarez3. In What Sense are Economic Rights Human Rights? Departing from their Naturalistic Reading in International Human Rights LawSamantha Besson4. Property’s Relation to Human RightsCarol M. RosePart II: Economic Liberties, Growth, and Human Rights 5. Global Justice and Economic Growth: Ignoring the Only Thing that WorksDan Moller6. Entrepreneurial Rights as Basic RightsFrancis Cheneval7. International Law, Public Reason, and Productive RightsFernando TesónPart III: Economic Liberties as Human Rights8. Making a Living: The Human Right to LivelihoodAmanda Greene9. The Right to Own the Means of ProductionChristopher Freiman and John Thrasher10. A Claim to Own Productive PropertyNien-hê Hsieh12. Creativity, Economic Freedom, and Human RightsRobert Cooter and Benjamin ChenPart IV: Critical Views11. Economic Rights as Human Rights: Commodification and Moral ParochialismDaniel Attas12. How Fundamental is the Right to Freedom of Exchange?Rowan CruftPart V: Economic Liberties in Practice 13. Economic Rights of The Informal Self-Employed: Three Urban CasesMartha Chen14. Addressing Land Rights in the Human Rights FrameworkKarol C. Boudreaux