Transnational Corporations and Human Rights

Olivier De Schutter is a Global Law Professor at New York University and Co-ordinator of the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights. He is also a Professor at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and at the College of Europe (Natolin).

• 1. The Challenge of Imposing Human Rights Norms on Corporate ActorsOlivier De Schutter Part I. The Responsibilities of States in Controlling Transnational Corporations2. Beyond Unocal: Conceptual Problems in Using International Norms to Hold Transnational Corporations Liable under the Alien Tort Claims ActAndrew J Wilson3. The Effect of Bilateral Investment Treaties on Human Rights Enforcement and RealizationRyan Suda 4. Competing for Foreign Direct Investment through the Creation of Export Processing Zones: The Impact on Human RightsChu Yun Juliana Nam5. The North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation: An Effective Compromise between Harmonization of Labor Rights and Regulatory Competition?Ana A PiquerPart II. Self-regulation by Transnational Corporations6. Corporate Codes of Conduct and the Human Rights Accountability of Transnational Corporations: A Small Piece of a Larger PuzzleFiona McLeay 7. International Framework Agreements: A Collaborative Paradigm for Labor RelationsLisa R Price Part III. Imposing Direct Obligations on Transnational Corporations under International Law 8. The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Case Study on Corporate Complicity in Human Rights AbusesAsimina-Manto Papaioannou 9. Corporations and the International Criminal CourtCristina Chiomenti10. The Lack of Enforcement in the United Nations Draft Norms: Benefit or Disadvantage?Jacob Gelfand 11. Overt and Hidden Accomplices. Transnational Corporations’ Range of Complicity for Human Rights ViolationsInés TófaloPart IV. Incentivizing Socially Responsible Corporate Conduct12. The Promotion of Human Rights by Selective Public Procurement under International Trade LawKatherine Zeisel13. A Role for the International Finance Corporation in Integrating Environmental and Human Rights Standards into Core Project Covenants: Case Study of the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline ProjectTerra Eve Lawson-Remer

...De Schutter has succeeded in putting together a coherent book by approaching the issue along four avenues through which the impunity of corporations for human rights violations may be addressed... Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights Nicola Jagers Vol 26/3 (2008) This book gives an account of the different ways by which these new 'masters of the universe' can now be held bound by human rights obligations, with the different themes in the book being drawn together very well in the editor's interesting introduction. K D Ewing European Human Rights Law Review 2008, 2 ...contains contributions solely on the topic of corporations - themost important challenge the international community is facing. Eric De Brabandere Leiden Journal of International Law 22-1, 2009