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Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs: Closing the Governance Gap

Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs: Closing the Governance Gap

Name: Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs: Closing the Governance Gap
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9780857934758
Price: 1462.76 HKD
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Author: Simon Baughen
ISBN: 9780857934758

By Simon Baughen

Edward Elgar Publishing December 2015

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780857934758
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: December 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

The effects of globalization, together with the increase in foreign investment and resource development within the developing world, have created a context for human rights abuses by states in which corporations from the developed world are complicit.

This has led to what John Ruggie has identified as ‘governance gaps’. This book will consider how these gaps may be closed, examining: the status of corporations under international law; the civil liability of corporations for their participation in international crimes; and self-regulation through voluntary codes of conduct, such as the 2011 UN Guiding Principles.

1. Corporations and International Law
2. Suing in the US (1). Jurisdiction
3. Suing in the US (2). The Alien Tort Statute 1789 and Statutory Causes of Action
4. The ‘Law of Nations’ as a Cause of Action in the US
5. Tort Caims Against MNCs in the US
6. Tort Claims Against TNCs in the UK
7. Customary International Law as a Cause of Action Outside the US
8. Voluntary Codes and the UN Guiding Principles
Conclusion
Index