This article provides a critical analysis of developments from 2011 to date relating to the Second Pillar of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights. The article first briefly contextualises the corporate...

With a point of departure in the United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the UN (‘Ruggie') Framework on Business and Human Rights this article shows that recent developments with the UN and the OECD and some legislative EU and national State activities...

This article examines a company's responsibility to respect human rights, focusing in particular on corporate global supply chains. While global supply chains have long been associated with a range of human rights violations, a number of recent legislative initiatives both in Australia and...

In the last several years, there has been an increasing tendency to view the impacts of transnational business operations through the lens of human rights law. A major obstacle to holding companies accountable for the harms that they impose, however, has been the separate legal identity of...

The growth of transnational corporations over the past few decades has been paralleled by concerns to find ways of regulating the deleterious impacts on human rights by the ever-increasing number of companies whose corporate tentacles stretch across national boundaries and beyond the reach of...

This paper will discuss the importance of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UN Guiding Principles) violations and access to remedy for victims. Communities and individuals across the globe are adversely affected by activities of multinational corporations and...

"Until recently, human rights and business were perceived as two separate domains. Human rights, traditionally understood as a shield and protection for human beings against the abuse of governmental power and discretion were seen as of little direct implication for business. As a consequence,...

We live in an age of intermediated network communications. Although the internet includes many intermediaries, some stand heads and shoulders above the rest. This article examines some of the responsibilities of “Super-Intermediaries” such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, intermediaries...