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...

Who turned multinational corporations into bearers of human rights? This contribution analyzes the recognition and transformation of the idea of legal persons as rights holders from a rather isolated and restricted phenomenon in some domestic contexts, into a broader and fully-fledged...

Formal insolvency proceedings are usually characterised by adverse consequences on a broad range of stakeholders of the insolvent company. Affected stakeholders typically range from directors, shareholders, employees, counterparties, creditors to tort victims. Employees are usually regarded as...

The indispensable role that transnational corporations play as vehicles of foreign investment and economic development cannot be overemphasized. Developing countries, of which Nigeria is one, understand the impact of the activities of these corporations on their economic growth and development....

It is a fact that states with a high corruption rate (or a high corruption perception) are at the same time those with a poor human rights record. Beyond this coincidence, the paper seeks to identify a concrete legal relationship between corruption and deficient human rights protection. This is...

The number of transnational corporations - including parent companies and subsidiaries - has exploded over the last forty years, which has led to a correlating rise of corporate violations of international human rights and environmental laws, either directly or in conjunction with government...