Explores whether states possess extraterritorial obligations under international law to respect and ensure economic, social and cultural rights.

1. Introduction: an emerging field Malcolm Langford, Wouter Vandenhole, Martin Scheinin and Willem van Genugten; 2. On terminology: extraterritorial obligations Mark Gibney; Part I. Legal Status: 3. Extraterritorial duties in international law Malcolm Langford, Fons Coomans and Felipe Gómez Isa; 4. International financial institutions, transnational corporations and duties of states Smita Narula; Part II. Jurisdiction: 5. Extraterritorial human rights and the concept of 'jurisdiction' Maarten den Heijer and Rick Lawson; 6. Jurisdiction: towards a reasonableness test Cedric Ryngaert; 7. Just another word? Jurisdiction in the roadmaps of state responsibility and human rights Martin Scheinin; Part III. Causation: 8. Causality and extraterritorial human rights obligations Sigrun I. Skogly; 9. Deprivation, causation and the law of international cooperation Margot E. Salomon; Part IV. Division of Responsibility: 10. Division of responsibility between states Ashfaq Khalfan; 11. Extraterritorial human rights obligations and the north-south divide Wouter Vandenhole and Wolfgang Benedek; Part V. Remedies and Accountability: 12. Remedies and reparation Dinah Shelton; 13. Accountability mechanisms Ashfaq Khalfan; 14. Moral theory, international law and global justice Malcolm Langford and Mac Darrow.