Business and Human Rights

Beyond the End of the Beginning

César Rodriguez-Garavito

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781107175297
• eBook ISBN: 9781316814536
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The regulation of business in the global economy poses one of the main challenges for governance, as illustrated by the dynamic scholarly and policy debates about the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and a possible international treaty on the matter. This book takes on the conceptual and legal underpinnings of global governance approaches to business and human rights, with an emphasis on the Guiding Principles (GPs) and attention to the current treaty process. Analyses of the GPs have tended to focus on their static dimension, such as the standards they include, rather than on their capacity to change, to push the development of new norms, and practices that might go beyond the initial content of the GPs and improve corporate compliance with human rights. This book engages both the static and dynamic dimensions of the GPs, and considers the issue through the eyes of scholars and practitioners from different parts of the world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: A Dialogue Across Divides in the Business and Human Rights Field
• Part I Global Governance meets Business and Human Rights: Conceptual Debates and Regulatory Alternatives
• Part II The Practice of Business and Human Rights: Advocacy and Regulatory Strategies
• Conclusions: Whither the Business and Human Rights Field? An Ecosystemic View
• Index