Taking Human Dignity, Poverty and Empowerment of Individuals More Seriously: Rejoinder to Alston

* Editors Note: The Editors of the EJIL welcomed the request of Professor Petersmann to publish a rejoinder to the comment by Philip Alston and also welcomed his wish to have the rejoinder published in the same issue as the comment. This, however, limited both the time and space available to Profesor Petersmann to prepare his rejoinder. The entire Petersmann–Alston exchange will be posted on the website (www.ejil.org), including the longer version of Professor Petersmann’s paper to which he makes reference in his rejoinder. Both authors have been invited, should they wish, to amplify their comments on the website. † Professor (joint chair) for International and European Law and Policy at the European University Institute and its Robert Schuman Centre in Florence, Italy. In view of the page limitations imposed on both my article and this rejoinder, I refer to the longer responses to my critics in: Petersmann, ‘Time for Integrating Human Rights into the Law of Worldwide Organizations’, Jean Monnet Working Paper 7/2001, Harvard Law School. 1 Petersmann, ‘Time for a United Nations “Global Compact” for Integrating Human Rights into the Law of Worldwide Organizations: Lessons from European Integration’, 13 EJIL (2002) 621–650. EJIL (2002), Vol. 13 No. 4, 845–851 Taking Human Dignity, Poverty and Empowerment of Individuals More Seriously: Rejoinder to Alston*