Human Rights and Corporations

by Kinley,David; Kinley,David

• ISBN13: 9780754627425
• ISBN10: 075462742X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

High-profile corporate infringements of human rights, the rise and rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and on-going efforts to regulate corporate behaviour through legal regimes, at both domestic and international levels, have spawned a mountain of academic literature and commentary. This volume assembles the leading essays from this body of work.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Framing the Relationship

Human rights and multinationals: is there a problem?

The amorality of profit: transnational corporations and human rights

Human rights codes for transnational corporations: what can the Sullivan and MacBride principles tell us?

Business and human rights

Multinational corporations and the ethics of global responsibility: problems and possibilities

Human rights: the emerging norm of corporate social responsibility

Conceptual Perspectives

Protecting human rights in a globalized world

Corporations and human rights: a theory of legal responsibility

Meta-regulation: legal accountability for corporate social responsibility

Practice, Problems and Potential

The sangam of foreign investment, multinational corporations and human rights: an Indian perspective for a developing Asia

The UN human rights norms for corporations: the private implications of public international law

Engage, embed, and embellish: theory versus practice in the corporate social responsibility movement

Separating myth from reality about corporate responsibility litigation

The interface between globalisation, corporate responsibility and the legal profession

Index

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