Human rights and business : a policy-oriented perspective /
This book addresses the ever more urgent question as to whether individuals, Indigenous peoples or other vulnerable groups should be entitled to remedies under international law for violations of their human rights by transnational corporations.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Brill Nijhoff,
2014.
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| Series: | Studies in intercultural human rights ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Human Rights and Business:A Policy-Oriented Perspective; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 The New Haven School and the Human Rights and Business Debate; I Why the New Haven School?; A What is Law?; B Criticisms of the New Haven School; II The Challenges in Applying the New Haven School to the Human Rights and Business Debate; III What is International Law?; IV Conclusion; 2 Delimitation of the Problem; I Tools of the Trade; A Clarification of Observational Standpoint.
- B The Observational Standpoints of Key Decision Makers (Problem Solvers) in the Human Rights and Business DebateII Delimitation of the Problem under a Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence Analysis; III Geopolitical Drivers in the Human Rights and Business Debate; A Transnational Corporations: Searching for New Markets
- A Geopolitical Strategy; B The Politics of Lebensraum and the Emergence of Transnational Corporations; IV A Historical Overview of Corporations; A Judicial Activism Eviscerates Constitutional Law: The Santa Clara Decision.
- V The Business of Business: Corporate Social Responsibility and Human RightsA Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Definitions; B Arguments for and against CSR; 3 Identifying the Participants in the Human Rights and Business Debate; I Who Are the Participants?; A Categorizing the Participants; B The Westphalian Nation-State: Has It Outlived Its Purpose?; C The Role of Corporations in the International Legal Order; II The Participants' Competing and Conflicting Claims; A Claims of Individuals, Indigenous Peoples and Other Vulnerable Groups; B Claims of Transnational Corporations.
- C Claims of Nation-StatesD Claims of Nongovernmental Organizations and Civil Society; E Claims of Decision Makers; F The Participants' Perspectives on International Legal Personality; G Claim that TNCS are not Subjects of International Law; III Perspectives of the Participants; A Perspectives of the Victims: Individuals/Indigenous Peoples and Other Vulnerable Groups; B Perspectives of the Perpetrators: TNCS; C Perspectives of the Nation-State; D Perspectives of NGOS and Civil Society Organizations; E Perspectives of John Ruggie, as the SRSG; IV Common Assumptions of the Participants.
- V Participants' Bases of PowerIndividuals/Indigenous Peoples and Other Vulnerable Groups' Bases of Power; TNCS' Bases of Power; Nation-States' Bases of Power; V Strategies and Outcomes; 4 Past Trends in Decision; I Trend Analysis
- International; A The Anti-Slavery and Abolition Movement; B The Nuremberg Trials and the Liability of Corporations; II Trend Analysis: United Nations Attempts to Regulate Transnational Corporations; A Draft UN Code of Conduct; B The Global Compact; C The UN Norms; III Trend Analysis
- Intergovernmental Organizations' Guidance to TNCS; A The OECD Guidelines.
