Scholarly work shows that the existing legal framework for sustainable development is insufficient, cautious, incremental, and incomplete. Despite public and private efforts to address sustainable development, environmental and social problems and conditions continue to worsen. This Article...

We argue that proactive law can help organizations be more sustainable. Towards that end, this Article first provides a synopsis of proactive law literature as it pertains to corporate sustainability. Next, we discuss a series of illustrative cases on the pivotal nexus of proactive law and...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- Jane Jacobs -- Sergio's Story -- Broken Human Chain -- Reconnecting the Human Chain -- About This Book -- Section I Tensions in Values Have Created Today's Problematic World -- 1 The Sustainability Paradox --...