Over the last few decades, advances in transportation and production technology, in conjunction with economic globalization and the emergence of multinational corporations, have consolidated fragmented production processes into long and complex supply chains across jurisdictions. While there are...

This is the tenth in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S extraterritorial tax system.The U.S. extraterritorial tax system violates multiple provisions of international human rights instruments that have been signed, or signed and ratified, by the United States. The rights in question...

Under the notion of human rights due diligence (HRDD), firms are under a responsibility to account for the social and environmental impact connected to their operations across global value chains. This responsibility intersects with the sphere of operation of voluntary sustainability standards...

This essay examines the challenges posed by attempts to transplant foreign legal norms, in the form of human rights standards, into a context that seems far from conducive to them. It reviews a major study showing that the Japanese courts consistently reject international human rights-based...

As many domestic, inter-regional, and international political economy concerns burdened China's 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization (quot;WTOquot;), including the aftermath of accession, there is the often ignored impact of China's accession on Taiwan and its bid for international...

In December 2007 the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in its latest Guantaacute;namo Bay cases, Boumediene vs. Bush and Al Odah vs. United States. Interestingly, the argumentation offered in this litigation was almost exclusively domestic - international human rights law did not feature in...

One of the main reproaches against the WTO is that it does not allow for the enforcement of human rights through trade measures. The article analyzes legal, economic and political aspects of trade sanctions and trade incentives respectively. Whereas the WTO legal order hardly permits trade...

A Review Essay on the 2008 report of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and Transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Professor John Ruggie to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for...

The operations of multilateral development banks (MDBs) can have both positive and negative environmental, social and human rights impacts. Since negative impacts can have profound and irreversible consequences, they should be avoided or mitigated. The MDBs also need to provide those adversely...

How can foreign direct investment contribute to fulfil the right to development and realize some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals? The chapter consider this question by focusing on the role of international law and intergovernmental institutions that deal with three aspects of foreign...