Trade and human rights have had a complex contentious relationship. While trade experts assume that law are mutually supportive, lawyers seldom shared this opinion. Rather, they argue across different contexts, such as climate change, culture, development, the hard rules of international focus almost exclusively on economic values sideline rights. This essay seeks to shed more light these inter...

Compliance in international law remains a challenge and the search to understand whether why states comply with human rights endures as well. This essay endorses van Aaken Simsek's contention that rewarding is an important yet underexplored mechanism for ensuring compliance law, but suggests certain features of may make less apposite sphere three interrelated reasons. First, depends on domestic...