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Property Rights and Labour Rights Revisited: International Investment Agreements and the Social Clause Debate


Christopher McCrudden


Queen's University Belfast - School of Law; University of Michigan Law School

THE AUTO PACT: INVESTMENT, LABOUR AND THE WTO, Maureen English, ed., Kluwer, 2004

Abstract:     
This paper compares the debates over a social clause in international investment agreements to the tensions between property and labour rights in domestic legal systems. The treatment of labour standards in the failed attempt to negotiate a Multilateral Agreement on Investment in 1998 is considered and the possibility for greater convergence of approaches since then is analysed.

Keywords: international investment treaties, social clause, MAI, property rights, labor standards

JEL Classification: K31, K33

Accepted Paper Series


Date posted: July 26, 2004  

Suggested Citation

McCrudden, Christopher, Property Rights and Labour Rights Revisited: International Investment Agreements and the Social Clause Debate. THE AUTO PACT: INVESTMENT, LABOUR AND THE WTO, Maureen English, ed., Kluwer, 2004. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=568344

Contact Information

Christopher McCrudden (Contact Author)
Queen's University Belfast - School of Law ( email )
School of Law
Belfast BT7 1NN, BT7 1NN
Ireland
University of Michigan Law School ( email )
625 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215
United States
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