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Standards as Sources
German Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 63 (2020), Iss. 1 : pp. 369–417
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Eibe Riedel is Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Public Law, European and International Law at the University of Mannheim, Germany and a former member and Vice-Chairperson of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from 1997–2012. He is a member of the Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration and chaired the Board of Trustees of the German Institute of Human Rights, Berlin until 2016. He was Swiss Chair of Human Rights from 2009–2012 at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Visiting Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute from 2013–2017, and Honorary Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia until 2018.
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| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eibe Riedel\nStandards as Sources | 369 | ||
| I. Introduction | 369 | ||
| II. The Changing Structure of International Law Sources | 372 | ||
| III. Hard Law Sources of International Law | 376 | ||
| A. Treaties | 376 | ||
| B. Customary International Law | 369 | ||
| C. General Principles of Law | 369 | ||
| IV. Functions of General Principles | 369 | ||
| V. Standards | 370 | ||
| A. The Nature of Standards | 370 | ||
| B. Standards at Common Law | 370 | ||
| C. Standards in the German ‘Topics’ Debate | 370 | ||
| VI. Standards in International Law | 370 | ||
| A. International Economic Law Standards | 370 | ||
| B. ILO-Standards | 371 | ||
| C. Recognised Human Rights Standards | 371 | ||
| 1. The UDHR and ICESCR Example | 371 | ||
| 2. ILO Convention 190 (2019) on Violence and Harassment in the Workplace | 371 | ||
| 3. ILO Recommendation 204 (2015) on the Informal Economy | 371 | ||
| 4. Article 12 ICESCR on the Right to Health and Essential Medicines | 372 | ||
| 5. Other Right to Health Standards | 372 | ||
| 6. WHO Coronavirus Disease Standards | 372 | ||
| VII. Thinking in Standards as a Precept of Practical Reason | 372 |