Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Human rights obligations of business :

Human rights obligations of business : beyond the corporate responsibility to respect? / edited by Surya Deva and David Bilchitz. - 1 volume ; 23 cm

Originally published: 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.


The human rights obligations of business: a critical framework for the future / Surya Deva and David Bilchitz -- Navigating from 'trainwreck' to being 'welcomed': negotiation strategies and argumentative patterns in the development of the UN Framework / Karin Buhmann -- The 'Ruggie process': from legal obligations to corporate social responsibility? / Carlos Lopez -- Treating human rights lightly: a critique of the consensus rhetoric and the language employed by the Guiding Principles / Surya Deva -- A chasm between 'is' and 'ought'? A critique of the normative foundations of the SRSG's Framework and the Guiding Principles / David Bilchitz -- The corporate responsibility to respect human rights: soft law or not law? / Justine Nolan -- Closing the governance gap in the business and human rights arena: lessons from the anti-corruption movement / Anita Ramasastry -- Business, human rights and gender: a legal approach to external and internal considerations / Bonita Meyersfeld -- Due diligence and complicity: a relationship in need of clarification / Sabine Michalowski -- Making noise about silent complicity: the moral inconsistency of the 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework / Florian Wettstein -- When human rights 'responsibilities' become 'duties': the extra-territorial obligations of states that bind corporations / Daniel Augenstein and David Kinley -- Will transnational private regulation close the governance gap? / Nicola Jägers -- An analysis and practical application of the Guiding Principles on providing remedies with special reference to case studies related to oil companies / Tineke Lambooy, Aikaterini Argyrou and Mary Varner -- Access to remedy: the United Kingdom experience of MNC tort litigation for human rights violations / Richard Meeran.

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Social responsibility of business.
Human rights and globalization.
Human rights advocacy.

HD60. / H86 2013

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