David Bilchitz (University of Johannesburg)

Fundamental Rights and the Legal Obligations of Business

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates how to determine the substantive content of the legal obligations of corporations both to avoid harming fundamental rights and to contribute towards realising them. In doing so it outlines a multi-factoral approach for determining such obligations and proposes legal and institutional reforms nationally and internationally.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 522
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9781108815314
• ISBN-10: 1108815316
• Artikelnr.: 67103520

Autorenporträt

David Bilchitz is Professor of Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Law, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Professor of Law, University of Reading, United Kingdom. He is also Director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law. He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and Vice-President of the International Association of Constitutional Law. He is the author of Poverty and Fundamental Rights: the Justification and Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights (2007) and has published extensively in the area of business and human rights.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Nature and Purpose of the Corporation in Law; Part I: Legal
Doctrinal Models for Addressing the Substantive Obligations of Non-State
Actors for Fundamental Rights: 2. The State Duty to Protect Model; 3. The
Indirect Application Model; 4. The Expanding the State Model; 5. The Direct
Obligations Model; Part II: Towards a Multi-Factoral Model for Determining
the Substantive Content of Corporate Obligations: 6. The Justification for
and Contours of a Multi-Factoral Approach; 7. A Balancing Act -
Proportionality in the Corporate Sphere; 8: The Multi-Factoral Model and
Positive Obligations for Corporations; Part III: The Institutional
Implications of the Multi-Factoral Model; 9: Embedding the Multi-Factoral
Model in Corporations: The Role of Corporate Law; 10: Corporate Obligations
in a Global World: The Role of International Mechanisms.