The Alien Tort Statute and Its Implications for Multinational Corporations
Author : Linda A. Willett
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Aliens
ISBN :
Is International Law International?
Author : Anthea Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190696419
Book Description
This book challenges the idea that international law looks the same from anywhere in the world. Instead, how international lawyers understand and approach their field is often deeply influenced by the national contexts in which they lived, studied, and worked. International law in the United States and in the United Kingdom looks different compared to international law in China and Russia, though some approaches (particularly Western, Anglo-American ones) are more influential outside their borders than others. Given shifts in geopolitical power and the rise of non-Western powers like China, it is increasingly important for international lawyers to understand how others coming from diverse backgrounds approach the field. By examining the international law academies and textbooks of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Roberts provides a window into these different communities of international lawyers, and she uncovers some of the similarities and differences in how they understand and approach international law.
Human Rights Obligations of Business
Author : Surya Deva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107036879
Book Description
This book critically evaluates the Ruggie Framework and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and investigates the normative foundations as well as the nature, extent and enforcement of corporate obligations for the realisation of human rights.
Veiled Power
Author : Doreen Lustig
Publisher :
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019882209X
Book Description
This book critically analyses existing accounts of the history of the relationship between international law and multinational corporations using four case studies: Firestone in Liberia, the Nuremberg trials, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and the UNCTC code of conduct.
Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade
Author : Lance A. Compa
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812233407
Book Description
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Corporate Responsibility Under the Alien Tort Statute
Author : Michael Koebele
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 900417365X
Book Description
The Alien Tort Statute (also referred to as the Alien Tort Claims Act) is a US statute that provides a cause of action for violations of international law. While originally used against former dictators and military officials who fled to the U.S. after the respective governments in their home countries have been removed, human rights activists are now targeting transnational corporations or multinational enterprises for human rights violations in connection with their investments made outside the United States. This book examines and analyzes corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute.
"Ethically Impossible"
Author :
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781508807438
Book Description
In response to a request by President Barak Obama on November 24, 2010, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues oversaw a thorough fact-finding investigation into the specifics of the U.S. Public Health Service-led studies in Guatemala involving the intentional exposure and infection of vulnerable populations. Following a nine-month intensive investigation, the Commission has concluded that the Guatemala experiments involved gross violations of ethics as judged against both the standards of today and the researchers' own understanding of applicable contemporaneous practices. It is the Commission's firm belief that many of the actions undertaken in Guatemala were especially egregious moral wrongs because many of the individuals involved held positions of public institutional responsibility. The best thing we can do as a country when faced with a dark chapter is to bring it to light. The Commission has worked hard to provide an unvarnished ethical analysis to both honor the victims and make sure events such as these never happen again.
The Practice of Shared Responsibility in International Law
Author : André Nollkaemper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1229 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107107091
Book Description
This book reviews the practice of shared responsibility in multiple issue areas of international law, to assess its application and development.
The Law of the Future and the Future of Law
Author : Sam Muller
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 8293081805
Book Description
Rights of robots, a closer collaboration between law and the health sector, the relation between justice and development - these are some of the topics covered in The Law of the Future and the Future of Law: Volume II. The central question is: how will law evolve in the coming years? This book gives you a rich array of visions on current legal trends. The readable think pieces offer indications of law's cutting edge. The book brings new material that is not available in the first volume of The Law of the Future and the Future of Law, published in June 2011. Among the authors in this volume are William Twining (Emeritus Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London), David Eagleman (Director, Initiative on Neuroscience and Law), Hassane Cisse (Deputy General Counsel, The World Bank), Gabrielle Marceau (Counsellor, World Trade Organisation), Benjamin Odoki (Chief Justice, Republic of Uganda), Martijn W. Scheltema (Attorney at law, Pels Rijcken and Droogleever Fortuijn), Austin Onuoha (Founder, The Africa Centre for Corporate Responsibility), Lokke Moerel (Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek), S.I. Strong (Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution), Jan M. Smits (Chair of European Private Law, Maastricht University).
Business and Human Rights
Author : Dorothée Baumann-Pauly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317563921
Book Description
In a global economy, multinational companies often operate in jurisdictions where governments are either unable or unwilling to uphold even the basic human rights of their citizens. The expectation that companies respect human rights in their own operations and in their business relationships is now a business reality that corporations need to respond to. Business and Human Rights: From Principles to Practice is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary textbook that addresses these issues. It examines the regulatory framework that grounds the business and human rights debate and highlights the business and legal challenges faced by companies and stakeholders in improving respect for human rights, exploring such topics as: the regulatory framework that grounds the business and human rights debate, challenges faced by companies and stakeholders in improving human rights, industry-specific human rights standards, current mechanisms to hold corporations to account, future challenges for business and human rights. With supporting case studies throughout, this text provides an overview of current themes in the field and guidance on practical implementation, demonstrating that a thorough understanding of the human rights challenges faced by business is now vital in any business context.
