Incorporating Rights

Strategies to Advance Corporate Accountability

Erika George (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

414 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-994148-3 (ISBN)

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Human rights have not been a central concern of corporate law. Corporate actors have not been a central concern of international human rights law. This book examines existing and emerging strategies that could conceivably close a global governance gap that places human rights at risk and puts commercial actors in the position of becoming complicit in human rights abuses or implicated in abuses when conducting business in emerging market economies or other complex environments. Corporate codes of conduct, sustainability reporting, and selected multi-stakeholder initiatives are presented as the building blocks of a system of strengthening "soft law" that could solidify to become binding baseline standards for better business practices. It explains the conditions that have given rise to constructive change as well as those methods and mechanisms with promise for ensuring that business enterprises incorporate human rights considerations into business operations.

This book explores how capital and consumer markets could provide an additional or alternative form of enforcement to promote responsible business conduct. It provides comparative accounts of the creation of industry sector specific regulatory instruments and governance institutions arising from allegations of corporate complicity in human rights abuses after conflicts with concerned constituencies and affected communities. It considers market-based strategies to bring business practices into alignment with the responsibility to respect human rights and examines how corporate social responsibility initiatives could close the governance gap and how codes of conduct could come to regulate like real rules. It argues that regulation through information is essential to ensure that corporate conduct will be informed by human rights considerations and that business policies and practices will be implemented consistent with respect for human rights.

Erika George is the Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law and directs the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. She teaches constitutional law, international human rights law, international environmental law, international business transactions, international trade and seminars on business and human rights, inequality, and corporate citizenship and sustainability. She was the Interim Director of the University's Tanner Center for Human Rights and the University's 2018-2019 Presidential Leadership Fellow. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and serves on the board of the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights. She earned her B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as Articles Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She also holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago.

Introduction

Part I: Context and Challenges: International Law, Corporate Law, and Responsibility for Human Rights Risks

Chapter 1: International Law, Corporate Law, and Governance Gaps
Chapter 2: Global Policy Initiatives to Regulate Business Responsibility and Human Rights
Chapter 3: Human Rights Conflicts and the Creation of Corporate Responsibility Collaborations

Part II : Change: Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility Codes and Compliance with Commitments

Chapter 4: Information and Accountability: Regulating Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights through Ranking and Reporting
Chapter 5: Competition, Choice, and Change: Activist Investors and Concerned Consumers as Ethical Enforcement Agents
Chapter 6: From Voluntary to Obligatory: Corporate Reporting and Codes of Conduct to Promote Respect for Human Rights

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2021
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 157 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-994148-3 / 0199941483
ISBN-13	978-0-19-994148-3 / 9780199941483
Zustand	Neuware