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Article

4 Feb 2015

Author:
Frédéric Mégret, McGill University (Canada)

Would a Treaty Be All It Is Made Up to Be?

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...The move to a treaty on business and human rights should...not come as a surprise...[I]t is far too early to anticipate what the eventual substance of a Treaty on business and human rights might be. Fears about its orientation are not really a reason for not having a treaty at all, only a reason to fight to have as good a treaty as possible...[However], one can wonder whether the move to a treaty does not manifest a form of failure of legal imagination. Is it so difficult to imagine a global instrument that would be binding under international law yet not restricted by nature to state membership?

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