General Principles for Business and Human Rights in International Law

General Principles for Business and Human Rights in International Law
Author: Ludovica Chiussi Curzi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004440038

In General Principles for Business and Human Rights in International Law Ludovica Chiussi Curzi offers a critical analysis of the relevance of general principles of law in the multifaceted business and human rights field.

Associations transnationales

Associations transnationales
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Total Pages: 792
Release: 1989
Genre: Associations, institutions, etc
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Includes monthly supplements to International congress calendar.

Les perspectives de règlementation des activités des sociétés transnationales en l'absence d'un consensus sur la question de leur personnalité juridique internationale

Les perspectives de règlementation des activités des sociétés transnationales en l'absence d'un consensus sur la question de leur personnalité juridique internationale
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Release: 2008
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Le contexte immédiat de la recherche poursuivie dans ce mémoire est une forme de privatisation de la violence publique rendue de plus en plus visible dans la couverture médiatique des guerres contemporaines. Il est aujourd'hui patent que dans nombres de conflits, qu'ils soient internes ou internationaux, les forces militaires constituées par des employés de corporations transnationales sont équivalentes à tous points de vue, y compris en nombre, à des contingents étatiques traditionnels. Ce phénomène a attiré l'attention des médias et de la société civile, particulièrement dans la mesure où ces acteurs privés se sont vus à plusieurs reprises impliqués dans des activités criminelles. L'objet de la recherche entreprise ici est d'encadrer la question des activités militaires privées de ce genre dans le droit international contemporain, et de proposer une synthèse des principaux problèmes juridiques soulevés par ces acteurs et les principales solutions envisagées et envisageables en droit international. La problématique qui guide cette recherche concerne l'effet pour le droit international contemporain de la participation d'acteurs privés, en particulier de sociétés transnationales, dans l'exercice de la violence publique autrefois attribut exclusif du souverain. Plus particulièrement, l'argumentation développée ici est guidée par le défi posé par la privatisation de la guerre pour le droit international humanitaire, le droit international des droits de l'homme et le droit pénal international, qui comme le droit international général dépendent d'une séparation visible des sphères d'activité publique et privée. L'argument met en évidence que les difficultés rencontrées par le droit international face aux activités de ce que l'on appelle les " compagnies militaires privées " dérive de l'ambiguïté plus large avec laquelle le droit international traite les sociétés transnationales. En replaçant la question des " CMP " dans ce cadre plus large, l'argument défendu par la mémo.

Private International Law Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility

Private International Law Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility
Author: Catherine Kessedjian
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 697
Release: 2020-03-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030351874

This book addresses one of the core challenges in the corporate social responsibility (or business and human rights) debate: how to ensure adequate access to remedy for victims of corporate abuses that infringe upon their human rights. However, ensuring access to remedy depends on a series of normative and judicial elements that become highly complex when disputes are transnational. In such cases, courts need to consider and apply different laws that relate to company governance, to determine the competent forum, to define which bodies of law to apply, and to ensure the adequate execution of judgments. The book also discusses how alternative methods of dispute settlement can relate to this topic, and the important role that private international law plays in access to remedy for corporate-related human rights abuses. This collection comprises 20 national reports from jurisdictions in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia, addressing the private international law aspects of corporate social responsibility. They provide an overview of the legal differences between geographical areas, and offer numerous examples of how states and their courts have resolved disputes involving private international law elements. The book draws two preliminary conclusions: that there is a need for a better understanding of the role that private international law plays in cases involving transnational elements, in order to better design transnational solutions to the issues posed by economic globalisation; and that the treaty negotiations on business and human rights in the United Nations could offer a forum to clarify and unify several of the elements that underpin transnational disputes involving corporate human rights abuses, which could also help to identify and bridge the existing gaps that limit effective access to remedy. Adopting a comparative approach, this book appeals to academics, lawyers, judges and legislators concerned with the issue of access to remedy and reparation for corporate abuses under the prism of private international law.

Legal Sources in Business and Human Rights

Legal Sources in Business and Human Rights
Author: Martina Buscemi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004401180

Legal Sources in Business and Human Rights takes stock of different aspects of Business and Human Rights practice in order to identify and explore some dynamics that are driving the evolution of the legal sources of international and EU law in the field of B&HRs.

The Human Right to Water and International Economic Law

The Human Right to Water and International Economic Law
Author: Roberta Greco
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2022-05-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000217469

This book discusses the international right to water and the liberalization of water services. It is concerned with the harmonization of the right to water with the legal systems under which liberalization of water services has taken or may take place. It assesses paths of harmonization between international human rights law and international economic law in this specific field. The issue of the compatibility between the fulfilment of the right to water and the liberalization of water services has been at the heart of a passionate public debate between opponents and advocates of the privatization of the utility. The book provides an unbiased analysis of different international legal regimes under which the liberalization of water services has occurred or is likely to occur, notably international investment law, international trade law and European Union law, in order to assess whether the main features of the right to water can be guaranteed under each of these systems of law and whether there is space for prospective harmonization. The work will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of International Human Rights Law, International Economic Law, International Water Law, International Trade Law and EU Law.