The ability of business to affect human rights has only grown with globalisation, and the increased power of transnational corporations. Various attempts have been embarked upon by United Nations (UN) institutions to regulate business and human rights since the 1970s.This dissertation seeks to...

1. Multinational corporations, states and international regulation : historical background -- 2. Major attempts at the international level to control multinational corporations -- 3. Corporate social responsibility and its relationship to law -- 4. Legal and institutional framework and the...

1. Introduction -- 2. Understanding "Bhopal" afresh -- 3. Evaluation of existing regulatory initiatives : an analytical framework -- 4. Existing regulatory initiatives : an evaluation of (in)adequacy -- 5. Just profit or just profit : why should corporations have human rights obligations? -- 6....

Corporate human rights due diligence is now a social fact; it is no longer merely an idea or aspiration. This paper uses economist Frank H. Knight’s famous, albeit controversial, distinction between risk and uncertainty to help elucidate foundational concepts and challenges for the theory,...

The principal aim of this article is to highlight the evolving concepts and ideas of Corporate Human Rights Responsibility (CHRR) under international law and how it relates to other concepts of corporate responsibility. The point of departure is the observation that there is the need to close an...