The EU as a "global player" in human rights? /

Assessing the EU's position on human rights : it is a desirable one? / Richard Burchill -- Monitoring and enforcing fundamental rights : can the European Union measure up against other international organisations? / Rhona K.M. Smith -- European human rights law as a multi-layered human rights regime : preserving diversity and promoting human rights / Marton Varju -- Inconvenient multilateralism : the challenges of the EU as a player in the United Nations Human Rights Council / Gjovalin Macaj and Joachim A. Koops -- The EU commitment to international criminal justice : achievements and possibilities / Olympia Bekou and Mark Chadwick -- Human rights in trade : the EU's experience with labour standards conditionality and its role in promoting labour standards in the WTO / Tamara Takács -- Imperialistic endeavour or empty rhetoric? : analysing the EU's promotion of human rights in China since 1989 through a "normative power" perspective / Wenwen Shen -- Too different to be relevant? : considering the global influence of EU asylum laws and policy with respect to Japan / Emiko Nakasaka -- The promotion and protection of human rights during common security and defence policy operations : in-between a spreading state of mind and an unsolved concern / Maria Luisa Sánchez Barrueco -- The EU competition policy as an international human rights issue / Wolfgang Weiss -- Double jeopardy in Europe : what lessons for global players? / Dawn Sedman -- Defining the free press : recent European case-law on political free speech, anti-terrorism legislation and the free press / Angus Nurse -- EU equality law : from protecting "groups" to protection of all / Joanne Milner -- Conclusion : looking to the future : no Hubris, no false modesty / Geoffrey Harris