The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) emerged in the official discourse of the EU in 2000. The paper explains how, while CSR may have been initially an idea about the scope of the responsibility of companies towards their environment, it has now become a process in which the...

In the European Union, where the institutions of the Union only may exercise the powers which are attributed to them by the Member States, the implementation of fundamental rights essentially takes place at state level. This essay analyses the limits of such a decentralized implementation of the...

French Abstract: Cette étude prend pour point de départ les affaires Total et Unocal, portées respectivement devant les juridictions belges et les juridictions des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, après que ces sociétés furent accusées de complicité dans les graves violations des droits de...

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) emerged in the official discourse of the EU in 2000. This article explains how, while CSR may have been initially an idea about the scope of the responsibility of companies towards their environment, it has now become a process in which the...