Human Rights and Corporations

Contents: Introduction; Part I Framing the Relationship: Human rights and multinationals: is there a problem?, Peter Muchlinski; The amorality of profit: transnational corporations and human rights, Beth Stephens; Human rights codes for transnational corporations: what can the Sullivan and MacBride principles tell us?, Christopher McCrudden; Business and human rights, David Weissbrodt; Multinational corporations and the ethics of global responsibility: problems and possibilities, Mahmood Monshipouri, Claude E. Welch Jr and Evan T. Kennedy; Human rights: the emerging norm of corporate social responsibility, Claire Moore Dickerson. Part II Conceptual Perspectives: Protecting human rights in a globalized world, Dinah Shelton; Corporations and human rights: a theory of legal responsibility, Steven R. Ratner; Meta-regulation: legal accountability for corporate social responsibility, Christine Parker. Part III Practice, Problems and Potential: The sangam of foreign investment, multinational corporations and human rights: an Indian perspective for a developing Asia, Surya Deva; The UN human rights norms for corporations: the private implications of public international law, David Kinley and Rachel Chambers; Engage, embed, and embellish: theory versus practice in the corporate social responsibility movement, John M. Conley and Cynthia A. Williams; Separating myth from reality about corporate responsibility litigation, Harold Hongju Koh; The interface between globalisation, corporate responsibility and the legal profession, Halina Ward; Index.

Biography

David Kinley is a Professor of Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia.

'...provides a very useful service to the field, by compiling some of the best recent work on the human rights obligations of corporations.' Law and Politics Book Review