To meet its responsibility to respect human rights under the 2011 UN Guiding Principles and Business and Human Rights, a corporation must conduct human rights due diligence. To be effective, human rights due diligence must be embedded into corporate culture through effective leadership that is...

This paper discusses an effort of creative lawyering to enable business clients to prevent and mitigate human rights abuse in their supply chains. Specifically, a Working Group of the Business Section of the American Bar Association has drafted suggested clauses for supply chain contracts...

This paper examines the efforts of the American Bar Association to draft proposed Model Contract Clauses for businesses that prohibit modern slavery and child labor in supply chain contracts. This involves a careful balancing of a buyer's desire to avoid consuming goods manufactured with human...

This paper discusses an effort of creative lawyering by a Working Group of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association to help enable business clients to prevent and mitigate human rights abuse in their supply chains. A Working Group of the Business Section of the American Bar...

This paper discusses how human rights due diligence (“HRDD”) applies to the prevention and mitigation of social conflict in the Peruvian mining industry. Peru is one of the world’s largest producers of copper, gold, and zinc. Its mining industry accounts for ten percent of Peru’s gross...