Human Rights Law

Making and Breaking the Rules in Business and Human Rights

By Claire H. Palmer
Cambridge University Press January 2026

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ISBN-13
9781108832861
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
January 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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How do we make corporations accountable for human rights violations? This book illuminates how governments, international organisations, NGOs and individuals make (and break) the rules in business and human rights.

It covers a rich array of examples of rule-making in business and human rights, including: (i) legal developments in domestic courts in the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe; (ii) initiatives endorsed by the United Nations, including the 2011 UN Guiding Principles; and (iii) multistakeholder initiatives such as the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs). It also introduces a new theoretical framework to assist scholars in understanding trends in the area of business and human rights. By emphasising implementation, the framework brings much-needed conceptual clarity to the processes of rule-making and legalization and constitutes an important contribution to the business and human rights literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. A new framework for transnational legalisation
2. Corporations, human rights and the governance gap
3. Processes of legalisation in transnational litigation
4. Processes of legalisation in the united nations
5. Processes of legalisation in multi-stakeholder initiatives
Conclusion
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