1st Edition
Corporate Responsibility and Accountability in Business Law Regulation and Practice in Emerging Sectors
PART I: Foundations and Conceptual Framework
1. Introduction: Corporate Responsibility and Accountability in Emerging Sectors through the Lens of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Angelica Rutherford
2. Reconceptualising Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability to Enhance Multinational Corporations’ Accountability
Sunday Adebola
PART II: Corporate Responsibility and Accountability in AI and Data
3. Balancing Innovation and Responsibility: AI Regulation and Corporate Accountability in Emerging Sectors
Craig Smith
4. Governing AI Risks within Companies: Directors’ Duty of Care in the Modern Age
Guanqun Qin
5. Embedding Responsibility and Accountability in Regulatory Frameworks Governing Conversational Agents in Mobile Mental Health Applications
Hui Yun Chan
6. Digital Colonialism and Data Sovereignty in Africa: Human Rights Implications of Big Tech Expansion
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh
PART III: Corporate Responsibility and Accountability in Investment
7. Investor Obligations in International Investment Agreements: Exploring Responsible Foreign Investment
Angelica Rutherford
8. Corporate Investors’ Exploitation and Plunder in the Democratic Republic of Congo – The Illusion of Development amidst Minerals Extraction
Xavier Matieni
PART IV: Corporate Responsibility and Accountability in Production and Consumption
9. Blockchain and Corporate Responsibility: Smart Contracts as Tools for Enhancing Transparency and Accountability
Anais Eulalio Cohrs and Eugênia Cristina Nilsen Ribeiro Barza
10. Responsible Production and Consumption in Tourism and Hospitality
Sarah Thangadurai
PART V: Corporate Responsibility and Accountability in Energy and Climate Change
11. The Brazilian Pre-Salt Exploration by Foreign Petroleum and Gas Companies: Autonomy of Will under Law Number 12.351/2010
Aurélio Agostinho da Bôaviagem, Eugênia Cristina Nilsen Ribeiro Barza and Madson Douglas Xavier Da Silva
12. Corporate Liability for Carbon Emissions in Aviation: Legal and Business Frameworks
Frank Alparslan
Biography
Angelica Rutherford is a lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, co-director of the Technology, Innovation, and Global Law Research Group (TIG) and a fellow of Advance HE. Her research interests encompass international trade law, energy law (clean energy technologies), international investment law and arbitration, and business and human rights. Adopting both critical and pragmatic approaches, Angelica investigates the integration of environmental, human rights, and social considerations into international business law. Angelica is an interdisciplinary scholar, engaging in both socio-legal inquiry and law and economics research.
