Challenging Time(s) for Future Generations’ Human Rights
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Challenging Time(s) for Future Generations’ Human Rights
German Yearbook of International Law, Online First : pp. 1–26
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Franziska Berg, University of Münster, Law Faculty, Institute for International and Comparative Public Law 30625 Hannover, Germany
- Franziska Berg is a Doctoral Candidate at the Law Faculty, University of Münster, and Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Göttingen. She studied law in Göttingen and Copenhagen and completed her legal clerkship in Lüneburg, Hamburg and Brussels.
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Abstract
Abstract: Future generations are increasingly referred to in the context of human rights by treaty bodies, courts, and legal scholarship. In academic debates that accompany these developments and aim to further conceptualise human rights for future generations, underlying temporal narratives have so far received only limited attention. This is surprising, given that ‘future generations’ is an inherently temporal concept. Building on current scholarship on time and temporality in international human rights law more generally, the article shows how prominent temporal narratives in this field also influence the conceptualisation of human rights for future generations. To that end, the article analyses three fundamental challenges: the definition of the potential right holder, the conception of rights for future generations, and questions of jurisdiction.
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| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franziska Berg\nChallenging Time(s) for Future Generations’ Human Rights | 1 | ||
| I. Introduction | 1 | ||
| II. Temporal Narratives of Future Generation’s Human Rights | 4 | ||
| III. The Challenge of Defining Future Generations | 8 | ||
| IV. The Challenge of Conceptualising Human Rights for Future Generations | 15 | ||
| V. The Challenge of Jurisdiction | 20 | ||
| VI. Conclusion | 26 |