@inbook{58dc283c75d345f8b0f441d0bf643416,
title = "Integrating Human Rights into Investment Treaties: The EU Approach",
abstract = "The European Union (EU) very much attempts to position itself as global leader in championing sustainability in its free trade and investment agreement agenda. Accordingly, the EU frequently makes reference to sustainability and human rights in its investment treaties. However, this chapter will demonstrate that such references are inconsistent across the EU's investment treaty regime, and often weak in formulation. Further, and even more contradictorily, the EU has recently concluded investment negotiations (and is currently actively involved in ongoing investment negotiations) with countries that have questionable human rights records. This chapter will explore the apparent paradox of the EU's practice in this regard within the broader context of the limitations of the human rights regime, and more specifically its failure to be properly integrated in the international investment regime (and public international law more broadly).",
author = "Nicolette Butler and Niyoosha Shishehgar",
year = "2024",
month = sep,
day = "2",
doi = "10.4324/9781032702162-16",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781032638034",
series = "Human Rights and International Law",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "254--272",
editor = "Louisa Ashley and Butler, {Nicolette }",
booktitle = "The Incoherence of Human Rights in International Law",
address = "United Kingdom",
}