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25 Brook. J. Int'l L. 125 (1999)
Does Globalization Advance Human Rights

handle is hein.journals/bjil25 and id is 133 raw text is: DOES GLOBALIZATION ADVANCE HUMAN RIGHTSV Jeffrey L. Dunoff I. INTRODUCTION Louis Henkin famously proclaimed that ours is the Age of Rights.' But it is certainly also the Age of Globalization. Sur- prisingly, the relationships between these two phenomena have received little scholarly attention. This Symposium offers a superb opportunity to initiate an overdue examination of these issues. In this short essay, I will address many of the issues my co-panelists raised from a slightly different perspective. In particular, I will develop three different arguments. First, I will show why the two dominant stories about globalization and rights--one in which they are mutually supportive and one in which they are deeply antagonistic-are misleading. Second, I will present a more nuanced, and more ambiguous, story about the relationship between globalization and rights. And finally, I will outline the challenge ahead and identify strategies for ensuring that globalization is more friend than foe to human rights. While I cannot fully develop any of these arguments in this brief commentary, I hope to contribute to a richer debate over the relationship between globalization and enhanced human rights. t Copyright © 1999 by Jeffrey L. Dunoff. * Associate Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law; Visiting Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. This is a slightly edited version of remarks delivered at a Symposium on The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 50 and the Chal- lenge of Global Markets at Brooklyn Law School on November 5, 1998. Many thanks to Jane Baron, Theresa Glennon, Laura Little and Henry Richardson, who provided helpful comments on earlier drafts. I am also grateful to Spencer Weber Waller and Samuel Murumba for inviting me to participate in this Symposium. Work on this paper was supported by a summer research grant from the Temple University School of Law. 1. LOUIS HENKIN, THE AGE OF RIGHTS ix (1990).