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Business and Human Rights as Law: Towards Justiciability of Rights, Involvement, and Remedy

Business and Human Rights as Law: Towards Justiciability of Rights, Involvement, and Remedy

Author: Yousuf Aftab; Audrey Mocle
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
ISBN: 9780433478607
Published In: March 2019
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Canada ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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As the authors explain in the Introduction to this book, the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are transforming corporate responsibility from public relations art to legal science.

While the Guiding Principles are soft law, their definition of business respect for human rights has inspired a paradigm shift in human rights-related corporate legal risk through a wave of national legislation and transnational litigation. The contours of the emerging legal risk, however, are vague.

Business and Human Rights as Law: Towards Justiciability of Rights, Involvement, and Remedy is the first text to subject the Guiding Principles’ foundational concepts to legal analysis in search of precise, practical, and replicable guidance.

The result is a unique blend of theory and practice—illustrated through complex, real-world examples—to help lawyers and judges unearth the objective bases of corporate human rights responsibility and liability.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards justiciability

A. The evolution of corporate responsibility

B. The justiciability challenge

C. Overview of this book

D. Our interpretive approach

Chapter 2: Legal risk

A. Introduction: Business and human rights as a legal science

B. Litigation: Adjudicating responsibility for human rights

C. Legislation: The grand experiment

D. International treaty

E. Towards a justiciable standard of care for business and human rights

Chapter 3: Rights