This timely book examines how international legal regimes interact to govern corporate sustainability and how this interaction may enable harmful corporate conduct. With a focus on human rights abuse and the impacts of climate change, contributors from diverse legal backgrounds critically analyse the role of the law in shaping corporate behaviour.
Leading experts investigate three key areas: corporate law, international investment law, and public international law. They identify how each of these fields individually and collectively contribute to enabling sustainability harms, outlining how the convergence of these three areas creates a structural framework that permits and legitimizes corporate misconduct. Presenting both a diagnosis and pathways for reform, this book advocates for corporate accountability and urges a rethinking of law's role in shaping a just and sustainable global economy.
Scholars and students in the fields of human rights, corporate law and public international law will benefit from this book's insights. Providing actionable proposals for rethinking and reforming business models, this book is also a crucial reference for policymakers, legal practitioners, ESG professionals, and management consultants.
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'This volume brings together leading scholars to examine the role of various laws in both enabling and disabling unsustainable corporate practices. The contributions in this edited book are a timely addition to collective ongoing thinking on addressing the root causes of corporate harms to people and the planet.' -- Surya Deva, Macquarie University, Australia
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-1-0353-5382-8 (9781035353828)
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Edited by Barnali Choudhury, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Director of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, Canada and Honorary Professor, University College London, UK
Contents
1 Global corporations and sustainability: an introduction 1
Barnali Choudhury
2 Corporate governance and sustainability incentives 12
Christopher M Bruner
3 Corporate accountability, international law, and the climate crisis 33
Carol Liao
4 Modern slavery law and climate change law as potential disruptors: persisting corporate sustainability challenges in global value chains 58
Peer Zumbansen
5 Looking at clouds from both sides? - corporate sustainability and business human rights 83
Lorraine Talbot
6 Overcoming conflicts between investment protection and human rights through corporate sustainability due diligence? 106
Markus Krajewski
7 The inherent incompatibility of international investment law with a just green transition 126
Anil Yilmaz Vastardis
8 Investment law resistance to investor responsibility: mapping the challenges to overcome asymmetries 149
Leonardo Vieira Arruda Achtschin
9 Investment treaties and local communities: mapping the literature, thinking ahead 163
Nicolas M Perrone and Nicole Selame
10 Historicising the recognition of the travelling corporation 180
Sundhya Pahuja
11 European Union's global social role: between free trade agreements and corporate sustainability due diligence in global value chains 205
Madalina Andreea Stoican and Marianna Peroni
12 How to make corporations accountable for human rights abuses: perspectives from corporate law, international investment law, and human rights and business 220
Peter Muchlinski
13 The intertwining of corporate, international investment and public international law and their impacts on sustainability 250
Barnali Choudhury
