Transnational Corporations and Human Rights (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Schutter, Olivier De

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a systematic overview of the different tools through which the human rights accountability of transnational corporations may be improved. It first examines the responsibility of States in controlling transnational corporations, emphasizing both the limits imposed by the protection of the rights of investors under investment treaties and the potential of the US Alien Tort Claims Act and other similar extra-territorial legislations. It then turns to self-regulation by transnational corporations, through the use of codes of conduct or international framework agreements. It then discusses recent attempts at the global level to improve the human rights accountability of corporations by the direct imposition on corporations of obligations under international law. Finally, it considers the use of public procurement policies or of conditionalities in the lending policies of multilateral lending institutions in order to incentivize TNCs to behave ethically. Altogether, the book offers a rigorous legal analysis of these different developments and critically appraises their potential.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847312761
• Artikelnr.: 52849998

Autorenporträt

Olivier De Schutter is a Global Law Professor at New York University and Co-ordinator of the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights. He is also a Professor at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and at the College of Europe (Natolin).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Challenge of Imposing Human Rights Norms on Corporate Actors Olivier
De Schutter Part I. The Responsibilities of States in Controlling
Transnational Corporations 2. Beyond Unocal: Conceptual Problems in Using
International Norms to Hold Transnational Corporations Liable under the
Alien Tort Claims Act Andrew J Wilson 3. The Effect of Bilateral Investment
Treaties on Human Rights Enforcement and Realization Ryan Suda 4. Competing
for Foreign Direct Investment through the Creation of Export Processing
Zones: The Impact on Human Rights Chu Yun Juliana Nam 5. The North American
Agreement on Labour Cooperation: An Effective Compromise between
Harmonization of Labor Rights and Regulatory Competition? Ana A Piquer Part
II. Self-regulation by Transnational Corporations 6. Corporate Codes of
Conduct and the Human Rights Accountability of Transnational Corporations:
A Small Piece of a Larger Puzzle Fiona McLeay 7. International Framework
Agreements: A Collaborative Paradigm for Labor Relations Lisa R Price Part
III. Imposing Direct Obligations on Transnational Corporations under
International Law 8. The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources in the
Democratic Republic of Congo: A Case Study on Corporate Complicity in Human
Rights Abuses Asimina-Manto Papaioannou 9. Corporations and the
International Criminal Court Cristina Chiomenti 10. The Lack of Enforcement
in the United Nations Draft Norms: Benefit or Disadvantage? Jacob Gelfand
11. Overt and Hidden Accomplices. Transnational Corporations' Range of
Complicity for Human Rights Violations Inés Tófalo Part IV. Incentivizing
Socially Responsible Corporate Conduct 12. The Promotion of Human Rights by
Selective Public Procurement under International Trade Law Katherine Zeisel
13. A Role for the International Finance Corporation in Integrating
Environmental and Human Rights Standards into Core Project Covenants: Case
Study of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline Project Terra Eve
Lawson-Remer