International Human Rights Law: Cases, Materials, Commentary - Softcover

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Olivier De Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food and Professor of Human Rights Law at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and at the College of Europe. A member of the Global Law School Faculty at New York University, he has been Visiting Professor at a number of institutions, most recently at Columbia University. From 2002 to 2006, he chaired the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights, a high-level group of experts which advised the European Union institutions on fundamental rights issues. He has acted on a number of occassions as expert for the Council of Europe and for the European Union. From 2004 until his appointment as the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, he was the General Secretary of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) on the issue of globalization and human rights.