The regulation of transnational corporations is increasingly a multi-actor and multi-level phenomenon. This trend is particularly visible in the garment global value chain. Spurred by the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, a flurry of public and private initiatives addressing...

Business-related human rights abuses remain endemic in Europe and globally. European actors have implemented measures to address business-related human rights abuses both prior and subsequent to the United Nations 2011 Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a central reference point of...

The state of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the European Union (EU) in the context of the EU framework governing business and human rights (B&HR) is worthy of consideration. This chapter follows the top-down approach: it explores the relevant EU legal and policy...

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...

Between 2005 and 2011, there was much debate within Canada and at the United Nations over what role home states should play in the regulation and adjudications of human rights harms associated with transnational corporate conduct. In Canada, this debate focused upon concerns associated with...

In 2008 the Law Faculty at Monash University was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant to examine the application of human rights in a range of closed environments. A ‘closed environment’ was defined for this project, in line with the OPCAT definition, as ‘any place...

Foreign victims of exactions committed by Canadian multinational companies have long been confronted to a legal vacuum in liability actions against those companies. Although Canada was considered as a judicial paradise for mining corporations, this impunity era seems now over. Two recent court...

This chapter shows how the social and institutional organization and political culture of China have affected how Chinese corporations approach the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in general and CSR-based human rights responsibilities in particular. Part I examines the global...

Written for the Chapman Law Review Symposium on the question “What can Law & Economics Teach Us About Corporate Social Responsibility,” this article argues that problems of corporate social responsibility (CSR) present typical Coasean incompatible use problems: the firm wishes to conduct its...

Chapter 22 of Marie Breen-Smyth, Ashgate Companion to Political Violence (2012): Within the dominion of counter-terrorism, policy choices can be stark. One must determine in institutional terms whether the response is to be predominantly military or policing and, cutting across that boundary,...