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...