On Business and Human Rights
RWI’s Senior Researcher, Radu Mares, Team Leader of Economic Globalisation and Human Rights, has written four research briefs on business and human rights.
Brief 1 – Three Baselines for Business and Human Rights
The first brief explains the progression of legal reasoning around corporate human rights responsibilities during the last two decades.
Brief 2 – Regulating in a Transnational Context: Three Foundational Principles
The second brief puts forward three foundational principles that explain the difficulties in regulating multinational enterprises.
Brief 3 – Policy Developments in Six Policy Channels
The third brief tracks recent developments in different policy fields such as economic law, human rights and development cooperation, and corporate social responsibility.
Brief 4 – A Two-Track, Multi-Channel Regulatory Model
This brief is about using legal coercion directed at the top of global value chains (GVCs) as a way forward. It addresses two questions: when and why should coercive regulations be promoted or not?