The Cambridge Companion to Business and Human Rights Law

Ilias Bantekas is Professor of Transnational Law at Hamad bin Khalifa University (Qatar Foundation), College of Law and Adjunct Professor in the Edmund E. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He serves as consultant to several international organisations and is regularly appointed arbitrator in international commercial disputes. He has written close to 170 articles and 17 books, including International Human Rights Law and Practice, Third Edition (with L. Oette, 2020) and Introduction to International Arbitration (2015). Michael Ashley Stein is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School since 2005. He teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Medical School, holds an Extraordinary Professorship at the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law's Centre for Human Rights, and is a visiting professor at the Free University of Amsterdam Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences' Athena Institute. His authoritative and path-breaking scholarship has been published worldwide by leading journals and academic presses, and has been supported by numerous fellowships and awards.

• Part I. Conceptual Framework: 1. The links between business and human rights under international law and the role of non-state actors Ilias Bantekas; 2. International trade and human rights Francesco Seatzu; 3. Neo-liberalism, state-capitalism and European ordo-liberalism: why power politics and 'constitutional failures' undermine economic law and human rights law Ulrich Petersmann; 4. Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility John Paterson; 5. The role of business in international development and the attainment of the sustainable development goals Katerina Akestoridis; 6. The business and economic case for human rights Dorothee Baumann-Pauly and Lilach Trabelsi; 7. The business and economic case for human rights Maximilian Schormair; Part II. Regulatory Framework: 8. The UN guiding principles and its predecessors Surya Deva; 9. The regulatory framework of multinational enterprises Peter Muchlinski; 10. The UN global compact and the OECD guidelines on multinational enterprises and their enforcement mechanisms Andreas Rasche; 11. Taxation and business with a focus on the human rights dimension of transfer pricing and other corporate tax practices Reuven Avi-Yonah; 12. Corporate accountability for the natural environment and climate change Damilola Olawuyi; 13. Corporate accountability for corruption and the business case for transparency Philip Nichols; 14. Implementation of the convention on the rights of disabled persons by corporations Michael Ashley Stein; 15. Gender, business and human rights Jessica Corsi; 16. The business sector and the rights to work and just and favorable conditions of work Marija Jovanovic; 17. Ethical and responsible lending to sovereigns, credit rating agencies and export credit as drivers of human rights Aline Darbellay Susso; 18. Intellectual property rights and human rights Molly Land and Lea M. Nesselhauf; Part III. Remedies and Dispute Resolution: 19. Remedies (judicial and settlements) against business for breaches of human rights Richard Meeran; 20. The role of human rights in foreign investment law and arbitration Silvia Karin Steininger; 21. An international business and human rights tribunal Judith Levine and Sarah Castles; 22. Innovative contractual remedies with indigenous peoples Kinnari Bhatt; Part IV. Practical Enforcement Tools: 23. Legal, ethical and practical dimensions of human rights impact assessments and successful case studies Ilias Bantekas; 24. Drafting a corporate (sustainability) audit report Chiara Ferracioli and Julien Parkhomenko; 25. The consumer case for sustainable business practices: lessons for corporations Anna Triponel; 26. Effectively monitoring business global supply chains and addressing host state pressure to decrease human rights standards Tam Nguyen; 27. A business and human rights treaty Ilias Bantekas.

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