Who turned multinational corporations into bearers of human rights? This contribution analyzes the recognition and transformation of the idea of legal persons as rights holders from a rather isolated and restricted phenomenon in some domestic contexts, into a broader and fully-fledged...

The use of artificial intelligence is spreading rapidly through all types of industries, and with this expansion come various implications for international human rights standards. This article analyzes the current responsibilities, if any, of transnational corporations deploying artificial...

Around the world peoples' lives are affected by the actions of businesses. In addition to positive impacts on livelihoods, ideas or technologies, business activities are also sometimes associated with significant human rights abuses – for example through land dispossession and forced...

This past summer, the Working Group on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises delivered its 2016 Report to the U.N. Human Rights Council. The focus of that report was the relationship of states and state owned enterprises to the state duty to...

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...

Because international law has traditionally been limited to state actors, the literature on business and human rights largely focuses on whether transnational corporations can be held responsible under international law. Less attention is paid to the question of what leads corporations to...

Transnational Corporations (TNCs) have often resisted initiatives to attribute human rights obligations to upon them especially in Africa. Some scholars argue that rights and duties relating to human rights may only be attributable to states and individuals. States derive responsibility from...

In June 2014, three years after it endorsed the U. N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Council moved to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights...