In recent years, major disasters have figured prominently in the media. While corporate responses to disasters may have raised corporate philanthropy to a new level, it remains an understudied phenomenon. This paper draws on comparative research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and...

The current United Nations process for drafting a Business and Human Rights treaty employs international human rights law as its paradigmatic frame of reference, including for the scope of corporations' legal obligations. Applying an evaluative framework based on Thomas Franck, Robert Keohane...

This report examines Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Germany. To this aim, it first takes a closer look at the German definition of CSR as well as the enforcement of CSR rules by the German government and its agencies (at A.). It then assesses the ways in which CSR standards are or may...

This book, through various differently oriented chapters, tries to give an insight on how the European Union and its multilevel model of governance must try to strike a balance between diverging interests and priorities. In particular, the EU and the European states (including the CoE's Members)...