International Cooperation under the Human Right to Science

Samantha Besson, Katja Achermann (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2026
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
9781035363933 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the importance of international cooperation in realizing the ‘human right to science’ as enshrined in Article 15(1)(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The need to reawaken this right has been acknowledged in recent scholarship. However, the role of international scientific cooperation for the effective realization of the right has been, to date, overlooked.

International scientific cooperation is not only a core element of the human right to science, as recognized explicitly by Article 15(4) ICESCR, but also a concern in many other regimes of international law, such as climate change, biodiversity, AI or health law. In this book, experts in international human rights law explore the grounds, subjects, objects, and the contents of the duty and responsibility of international cooperation under the human right to science. Chapters address a variety of issues ranging from the universality of science and respect for local knowledge, scientific sovereignty and self-determination, and the equitable access to and sharing of scientific benefits.



International Cooperation under the Human Right to Science is a crucial read for scholars and students of international law, particularly those in the field of international human rights law. Practitioners, including inside organisations such as UNESCO, WHO, WTO, WIPO or the IPCC, will also greatly benefit from the book’s necessary insights.

Autor

Edited by Samantha Besson, Professor of Public International Law and European Law, Faculty of Law, University of Fribourg, Switzerland and Professor of International Law of Institutions, Collège de France, France and Katja Achermann, SNF Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Inhalt

Contents
Preface ix
1 International cooperation under the human right to science 1
Samantha Besson
2 In search of the legal dimensions of ‘global science
inclusiveness’ 34
Klaus D. Beiter
3 Who is science for? 56
Anna-Maria Hubert
4 Indigenous peoples’ knowledge 79
Camila Perruso
5 The right to participate in science 100
Michela Massimi
6 Cooperation for the human right to be protected against the
harms to/of science 123
Amrei Müller
7 International cooperation under the human right to science in
light of new developments in international law and new and
emerging technologies 150
Silja Voeneky and Gizem Demir
8 Giving substance to the reinforced duty of international
cooperation under the human right to science in the context of
climate change 171
Katja Achermann
9 Differentiated allocation of international cooperation duties
and responsibility under the human right to science 192
Wouter Vandenhole
10 Operationalising international cooperation to protect science
as a global system 214
Raffaela Kunz
Index 237

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.1.2026
• Reihe/Serie: Elgar Studies in Human Rights
• Verlagsort: Cheltenham
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
• ISBN-13: 9781035363933 / 9781035363933
• Zustand: Neuware