Corporate Obligations Under International Law PDF Download

Intro -- General Principles for Business and Human Rights in International Law -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Table of Treaties -- Other International Instruments -- Table of Cases -- General Introduction -- The Heart of the Matter -- 1 Research Question and Outline of the Book -- 2 Note on Terminology -- 2.1 Corporations -- 2.2 General Principles of Law -- 2.3 Responsibility, Liability and Accountability -- 2.4 Corporate Social Responsibility and Business and Human Rights -- PART I A Public International Law Framework for Business and Human Rights -- Introduction -- 1 Business-Related International Human Rights Standards -- 1.1 The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises -- 1.2 The ILO Tripartite Declaration -- 1.3 The UN Global Compact -- 1.4 The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights -- 1.5 Non-Legally Binding Instruments (per se) -- 2 Corporations and Human Rights under Treaty Law -- 2.1 The Search for Corporate Obligations under Existing Human Rights Treaties -- 2.1.1 The Two UN Covenants -- 2.1.2 The ILO Core Labour Conventions -- 2.1.3 Regional Human Rights Treaties -- 2.2 The Drive for Corporate Obligations through a New Treaty -- 2.2.1 The UN International Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations -- 2.2.2 The UN Draft Norms on Transnational Corporations -- 2.2.3 The Current Negotiations of a Treaty on Business and Human Rights -- 3 Corporations and Human Rights under Customary International Law -- 3.1 Human Rights as Customary International Law -- 3.2 Corporations as Addressees of Customary Human Rights Rules -- 3.3 The Plausibility of a Customary Rule on Corporate Liability -- 3.4 Corporations and the Making of Customary International Law -- 4 General Principles of Law: A Forgotten Source -- 4.1 The History of Article 38(1)(c) of the ICJ Statute.