Olivier De Schutter
Biography:
Olivier De Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food since May 2008. He is a Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, New York University and Visiting Professor at Columbia University. He has been the General Secretary of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) on the issue of globalization and human rights. His publications are in the area of international human rights and fundamental rights in the EU, with a particular emphasis on economic and social rights.
Bibliography:
International Human Rights Law: Cases, Materials, Commentary. 2010, Cambridge University Press (with Jacques Lenoble, co-editors). Reflexive Governance. Redefining the Public Interest in a Pluralistic World. 2010, Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, Oregon Transnational Corporations and Human Rights (editor). 2006, Hart Publ., Oxford and Portland-Oregon Foreign Direct Investment, Human Development, and Human Rights : Framing the Issues. 2009. Human Rights & International Legal Discourse. Vol. 3, n° 2 : 137-176 Les affaires Total et Unocal: complicité et extraterritorialité en matière d’imposition aux entreprises d’obligations en matière de droits de l’homme”. 2006. Annuaire français de droit international. Vol. LII (2006), pp. 55-101
