Business of Human Rights

Aurora Voiculescu is Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies and Human Rights in the Department of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Law, the University of Westminster (London). She is the co-editor (with D. McBarnet and T. Campbell) of The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law (2007).Helen Yanacopulos is senior lecturer in International Politics and Development at The Open University. She is the co-editor of Civil War, Civil Peace (2005). She has acted as a consultant to various international agencies in matters of civil society, labour and human rights.

• 1. Human Rights in Business Contexts: An Overview - Aurora Voiculescu and Helen Yanacopulos2. Human Rights and the Normative Ordering of Global Capitalism - Aurora Voiculescu3. Brands, Corporate Social Responsibility and Reputation Management - Fiona Harris4. Transforming Labour Standards to Labour Rights - Piya Pangsapa and Mark J. Smith5. Violent Corporate Crime, Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights - Gary Slapper6. Access to Medicines: Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights and Justice - Keren Bright and Lois Muragur7. Foundations: Actors of Change? - Helen Yanacopulos8. Combating Transnational Corporate Corruption: Enhancing Human Rights and Good Governance - John Hatchard9. Business in Zones of Conflict: An Emergent Corporate Security Responsibility? - Nicole Dietelhoff and Klaus Deiter Wolf10. Human Rights, Ethics and International Business: the Case of Nigeria - Olufemi Amao11. Clusters of Injustice: Human Rights, Environmental Sustainability and Labour Standards - Mark J. Smith and Piya Pangsapa

This book provides a very good selection of the range of issues of corporate responsibility in the area of human rights. The authors offer insightful engagement with a variety of issues based on application to relevant examples in practice and from different perspectives.