This paper examines the growth of transnational governance, and what it means for business lawyers advising multinational corporate clients. The term “governance” incorporates the network of actors, instruments and mechanisms that now govern transnational corporations, separate from the...

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1. From economic cannibalism to corporate human rights liabilities -- 2. Different shades of voluntarism -- 3. A manufactured consensus -- 4. Tort law and the struggle against corporate human rights violations -- 5. Struggles for corporate accountability in the human rights courts -- 6. 'Human'...