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Philip Alston is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences with particular emphasis on political science, international relations, sociology, and law. The scholar's work intersects multiple subfields including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, law, global and planetary change, and the study of management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The main topics of their research cover a range of interconnected areas: environmental law and policy, human rights and development, international law and human rights, climate change and geoengineering, international environmental law and policies, ombudsman and human rights, as well as political philosophy and ethics.

Recent academic papers published by Philip Alston include:

  • "Human Rights and Climate Change Litigation: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards in the Irish Supreme Court" (2021), Journal of Human Rights Practice
  • "The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "The Right to a Healthy Environment: Beyond Twentieth Century Conceptions of Rights" (2023), AJIL Unbound
  • "Criminalizing Human Rights" (2023), Journal of Human Rights Practice
  • "Litigating Climate Change in Ireland" (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Journal of Human Rights Practice
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Australian Year Book of International Law Online
  • AJIL Unbound
  • Revue Quart Monde

Philip Alston collaborates regularly with several co-authors including Victoria Adelmant, Matthew Blainey, Christine Chinkin, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, and Théodore Christakis. These collaborations reflect recurring partnerships in their research projects.

Best Publications

  • The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal

    Philip Alston

  • Ships Passing in the Night: The Current State of the Human Rights and Development Debate seen through the Lens of the Millennium Development Goals

    Philip Alston

  • International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals

    Henry J. Steiner;Philip Alston;Ryan Goodman

  • ‘Core Labour Standards’ and the Transformation of the International Labour Rights Regime

    Philip Alston

  • Conjuring Up New Human Rights: A Proposal For Quality Control

    Philip Alston

  • The Sources of Human Rights Law : Custom, Jus Cogens, and General Principles

    Bruno Simma;Philip Alston

  • The EU and Human Rights

    Mara R. Bustelo;James Heenan;Philip Alston

  • THE BEST INTERESTS PRINCIPLE: TOWARDS A RECONCILIATION OF CULTURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

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  • The future of UN human rights treaty monitoring

    Philip Alston;James Crawford

  • The Populist Challenge to Human Rights

    Philip Alston

  • The Nature and Scope of States Parties’ Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

    Philip Alston;Gerard Quinn

  • Non-State Actors and Human Rights

    Philip Alston

  • Resisting the Merger and Acquisition of Human Rights by Trade Law: A Reply to Petersmann

    Philip Alston

  • An 'ever closer union' in need of a human rights policy : the European union and human rights

    Philip Alston;J.H.H. Weiler

  • The best interests of the child : reconciling culture and human rights

    Philip Alston

  • Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement

    Philip Alston;Mary Robinson

  • An ‘Ever Closer Union’ in Need of a Human Rights Policy

    Philip Alston;J. H. H. Weiler

  • International human rights in context : law, politics, morals : text and materials

    Henry J. Steiner;Philip Alston;Ryan Goodman

  • Labour Rights as Human Rights

    Philip Alston

  • U.S. Ratification of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Need for an Entirely New Strategy

    Philip Alston

  • The Myopia of the Handmaidens: International Lawyers and Globalization

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  • International Human Rights

    Philip Alston;Ryan Goodman

  • Human Rights and DevelopmentTowards Mutual Reinforcement

    Philip Alston;Mary Robinson

  • The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: a commentary

    John Tobin;Philip Alston;David Archard;Damon Barrett

  • The CIA and Targeted Killings Beyond Borders

    Philip Alston

  • The Unborn Child and Abortion Under the Draft Convention on the Rights of the Child

    Philip Alston

  • The International Dimensions of Human Rights@@@Human Rights and World Politics

    Richard Pierre Claude;Karel Vasak;Philip Alston;David P. Forsythe

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph H. H. Weiler
Joseph H. H. Weiler New York University
James Crawford
James Crawford University of Cambridge
Sally Engle Merry
Sally Engle Merry New York University
Benedict Kingsbury
Benedict Kingsbury New York University
Rosalyn Higgins
Rosalyn Higgins United Nations

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