A Typology of Multilateral Treaty Obligations: Are WTO Obligations Bilateral or Collective in Nature?

Fair Distribution of Collective Obligations

In social mechanism design, obligation distribution creates individual or contractual obligations that imply a collective obligation. A distinguishing feature from group planning is that also the sanction of the collective obligation has to be distributed, for example by creating sanctions for the individual or contractual obligations. In this paper we address fairness in obligation distributio...

Are Particularistic Obligations Justified? A Communitarian Examination

Are we justified when we care more about "our own kind" than about all others? Some scholars have tried to provide an answer based on what they consider human nature. Others--on self-interest. The author examines the implications of the constitutive roles community has in our life for this question, as well as the differences it makes when considering what kind of human flourishing we deem of v...

Co-national Obligations & Cosmopolitan Obligations towards Foreigners

On Obligations

Access control is concerned with granting access to sensitive data based on conditions that relate to the past or present, so-called provisions. Expressing requirements from the domain of data protection necessitates extending this notion with conditions that relate to the future. Obligations, in this sense, are concerned with commitments of the involved parties. At the moment of granting acces...

Rescue obligations and collective approaches: complexities in genomics.

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