Securing human rights through risk-management methods: breakthrough or misalignment?
Radu Mares, ‘Securing human rights through risk-management methods: breakthrough or misalignment?, Leiden Journal of International Law 32:3 (2019), pp. 517-535… Continue reading » “Article: Securing human rights through risk-management methods”
Continue readingDisruption and Institutional Development: Corporate Standards and Practices on Responsible Mining
Radu Mares, ‘Disruption and Institutional Development: Corporate Standards and Practices on Responsible Mining’, in I. Feichtner et al., Human Rights in the Extractive Industries: Transparency, Participation, … Continue reading » “Chapter: Disruption and Institutional Development”
Continue readingThe story of human rights corporate accountability is not a story of a move towards stringent international and transnational regulations. One discussion nowadays is whether the UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPs) should be hardened into law. … Continue reading » “A Two-Track, Multi-Channel Regulatory Model. Brief 4”
Continue readingThis brief tracks recent developments in different policy fields such as economic law, human rights and development cooperation, and corporate social responsibility. Root causes of abuses in transnational business operations are highlighted both at the top and bottom of the … Continue reading » “Policy Developments in Six Policy Channels: Brief 3”
Continue readingThis brief, the second in a series of four, puts forward three foundational principles that explain the difficulties in regulating multinational enterprises. This has implications on whether more or less coercive strategies could be pursued to ensure responsible business conduct.… Continue reading » “Regulating in a Transnational Context: Three Foundational Principles: Brief 2”
Continue readingAfter endorsing the UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPs) in 2011, the UN began in 2014 work on a possible treaty on business and human rights. This brief explains the progression of legal reasoning around corporate human … Continue reading » “Three Baselines for Business and Human Rights: Brief 1”
Continue readingThe chapter discusses the principle of the legal separation of entities and its ramifications in the transnational human rights context. There have been calls to hold multinational enterprises accountable for human rights infringements in their global value chains. Some argue … Continue reading » “Legalizing human rights due diligence and the separation of entities principle”
Continue readingThis article accounts for recent developments in corporate social responsibility, international trade and investment law, international human rights law, development aid, and the laws of home states reaching extraterritorially in order to advance a regulatory perspective on commerce and human … Continue reading » “Decentering human rights from the international order of states : The alignment and interaction of transnational policy channels”
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