States, Human Rights, and Distant Strangers: The Normative Justification of Extraterritorial Obligations in Human Rights Law [Paperback]

1. Introduction??Part I: Legal Framework??2. Fundamental Rights Protection in Domestic Constitutions? 3. Fundamental Rights Protection at the Supranational Level: The Case of the European Union? 4. International Human Rights Law? 5. Conclusion: The Legal Status of Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations??Part II: Ethical Framework and Normative Justifiability??6. Setting the Scene? 7. Statist Objections to Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations? 8. A Justificatory Theory of Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations??Part III: From Normative Justification to Legal Implementation??9. Translating Ethical Principles to Legal Interpretation? 10. The Interpretation of Jurisdiction? 11. Concluding Remarks

This book combines legal and philosophical perspectives to address the question of whether states are bound by human rights when they act with effects on people abroad  states extraterritorial human rights obligations (EHRO).

Angela M?ller is Head of AlgorithmWatch CH and Head of Policy and Advocacy at AlgorithmWatch. Before writing her PhD thesis on extraterritorial human rights obligations at the University of Zurich, she obtained an MA in Political and Economic Philosophy from the University of Berne. During her academic career, she was a visiting researcher at Columbia University, New York, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

This book combines legal and philosophical perspectives to address the question of whether states are bound by human rights when they act with effects on people abroadstates extraterritorial human rights obligations. Taking an innovative approach, it begins with a profound legal analysis of the issue at national, supranational, and international levels and then engages in depth with counterarguments against extraterritorially applying human rights, on the basis of which it develops its own ethical justiló