Public goods and human rights are sometimes treated as intimately related, if not interchangeable, strategies to address matters of common global concern. The aim of the present contribution is to disentangle the two notions to shed some critical light on their respective potential to attend to...

The chapter discusses the European Union's approach to managing global interdependencies in the business and human rights domain through law and governance. It considers the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) next to the International Treaty Initative, focussing on the...

The article discusses the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) in the European Union against the backdrop of perennial debates between proponents of ‘hard' versus ‘soft' law approaches to preventing and redressing corporate-related human rights...

Taking its cue from the US Supreme Court judgment in Kiobel that restricted the extraterritorial reach of the Alien Tort Claims Act, this article explores how sovereignty structures the relationship between global resource exploitation and the localization of human rights in the international...

The paper draws on pertinent case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to analyze the human rights dimension of environmental protection in EU external relations post-Lisbon. It suggests that the European Union may, through the institutionalization of ‘domestic' regulatory regimes...

The article argues that the facticity of the human rights impacts of economic globalisation increasingly undermines the normativity of the state-centred conception of international human rights law. The exposure of the international legal order of states to the operations of global business...

The research policy study examines the role of human rights and environmental due diligence legislation in protecting women migrant workers in global food supply chains. It considers in detail a recent proposal by the European Parliament for a European Directive on Corporate Due Diligence and...