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9 Hum. Rts. & Int'l Legal Discourse 2 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/hurandi9 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION: HUMAN RIGHTS IN DEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION GISELLE CORRADI* This volume of Human Rights and International Legal Discourse is dedicated to exploring some ongoing debates regarding human rights in relation to development and development cooperation. The issues addressed by the different contributions surfaced as unsettled aspects of the 'human rights and development nexus' at the three editions of the international summer course 'Human Rights for Development' organized by the Flemish Interuniversity Research Network on Law and Development (Law&Dev) in Antwerp, in 2012, in Ghent, in 2014, and in Leuven, in 2015.2 All the contributors to this volume were involved in at least one of these courses, either as a participant, or as a lecturer and organizer. The volume is composed as follows. First, a thematic section with three articles reflecting on various links between human rights and development and/or development cooperation (Vandenbogaerde; Verdonck; Corradi). Second, a free submission on the interplay between international law and human rights law in the field of extra-territorial obligations regarding the right to water in transboundary contexts (Murillo). And third, a book review essay on law and development studies (Vandenhole). As such, the volume offers a glimpse of the kind of teaching and research that is undertaken in this area by scholars based in Flanders. Common to the three articles that make up the thematic section is a concern with advancing a critical understanding of the role of different human rights duty bearers in areas that are relevant to development and development cooperation. These areas include states' extraterritorial positive obligations with respect to economic, social and cultural rights (Vandenbogaerde), the mechanisms to hold transnational corporations accountable for the human rights impact of their extractive operations (Verdonck), and development aid in order to improve the human rights record of non- state justice providers (Corradi). 1 Giselle Corradi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. She chairs the Flemish Interuniversity Research Network on Law and Development. 2 For more information on the summer courses, please visit: www.hr4dev.be/. For more information on the Law&Dev network, please visit www.lawanddev.ugent.be. Intersentia 2

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