The search for mandatory international human rights law accountability for transnational corporations has long been one of the most challenging struggles facing human rights advocates and the victims of powerful rights-violating corporate actors alike. Reflecting on the extent to which the US...

In a world of diverse cultural traditions that is simultaneously distinguished by the widespread universalist claim that “human rights extend in theory to every person on earth without discriminations irrelevant to merit,” the question unavoidably arises: when, in human rights...

The vast majority of the world’s scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth’s life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited;...

The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited; we...

One of the most distressing realities of our time is the failure of governance institutions to confront well-documented ecological and social problems with vigour, honesty, and imagination. A kind of political and institutional paralysis is precluding the growth of promising alternatives. In...