This peer-reviewed chapter reflects on the challenge and the aspiration of bringing transnational corporations (TNCs) more fully and coherently under the rule of international law. An extensive literature ruminates upon the dis-junction between the extant norms of our international legal order,...

There has been a steady growth in Canadian scholarship and advocacy regarding sustainability-based approaches to environmental assessments (“EA”). However, to what extent and in what circumstances would a sustainability-based EA inevitably confront some of the same conceptual and technical...

Distinguishing between international design failures and national implementation problems is a subject of some concern in the area of international natural resource and environmental policy such as water policy. Many observers have traced the failings of existing global governance architectures...