Rebecca McMenamin
Rebecca McMenamin is a PhD Candidate in public international law at the University of Vienna. She is also completing an LLM at the University of Cambridge this year as a Chevening scholar, and has been awarded a judicial fellowship at the ICJ for the next academic year. She previously practiced as a human rights litigator at the Attorney-General’s Office in New Zealand.
Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on 'Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.' Introduction The topic of debate is whether corporate human rights pose an obstacle or precursor to their own accountability for human rights violations. Many might have an intuitive…
Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on 'Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.' Introduction The topic of debate is whether corporate human rights pose an obstacle or precursor to their own accountability for human rights violations. Many might have an intuitive…