A Guide to Human Rights Due Diligence for Lawyers

Corinne Elizabeth Lewis, Constance Z. Wagner (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2023
American Bar Association (Verlag)
978-1-63905-202-8 (ISBN)

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Business clients are increasingly seeking their lawyers’ advice and assistance with human rights due diligence (HRDD). Their clients must navigate compliance with a growing array of legal requirements and soft law standards defining the expectations of governments, investors, and society that businesses respect human rights. Consequently, new opportunities are arising for lawyers to provide services and advice to businesses on HRDD.

This guide, intended for U.S. and foreign lawyers alike, is an indispensable resource on HRDD that should assist lawyers with understanding not only the fundamentals of HRDD but also crucial aspects of the process.

Part I of the book examines the essentials of HRDD, including the HRDD process, lawyers’ ethical obligations related to HRDD, and key due diligence legal requirements. In Part II, practical aspects of implementing HRDD are explored, including corporate governance, HRDD’s relationship to compliance approaches, use of grievance mechanisms, stakeholder engagement, gender-sensitive HRDD, and consultation with indigenous peoples.

In this rapidly developing area, lawyers also need to be aware of key developments that will affect how their business clients perform HRDD. Therefore, the final section, Part III, addresses four of those key areas: suppliers in value chains, the financial sector, the intersection of environmental law and climate change issues with HRDD, and high-risk security situations, such as those in countries that are politically unstable or undergoing conflict.

The goal of the expert contributions to this book is to further lawyers’ understanding and to facilitate their role in assisting businesses to respect human rights, which should, at the same time, foster businesses’ contribution to sustainable development and the social factor of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance).

Dr. Corinne E. Lewis, a partner in the Brussels-based law firm Lex Justi, is an international human rights lawyer with a specialization in business and human rights. She provides legal advice to a range of clients based on her corporate law background as in-house counsel with a major multinational company and her 30 years of international human rights law experience, including work at the United Nations. She also has taught human rights law and public international law courses at US and UK universities. Having lived and worked in the United States and multiple countries in Asia and Europe, she brings an international perspective to her diverse projects. In addition to a PhD in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Dr. Lewis has an LLM (with honors) from Georgetown University and a JD from Indiana University. She is Immediate past co-chair of the ABA International Law Section’s International Human Rights Committee.

Contents

About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

PART I

AN INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN
RIGHTS DUE DILIGENCE . . . . 1

Chapter 1

The
Evolving Concept of Human Rights Due Diligence
. . . . . . . . 3

Corinne E . Lewis

Chapter 2

The
Due Diligence Process
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Hind
Merabet

Chapter 3

Lawyers’ Ethical Obligations and Human Rights Due Diligence
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Steven M . Richman

Chapter 4

French Due Diligence Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

François
de Cambiaire and Alice Murgier

Chapter 5

Human Rights Due Diligence Requirements
Outside the United
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Esmira
Hackenberg, Olivia Dean, and Shelley Marshall

PART II

APPROACHING HUMAN RIGHTS DUE DILIGENCE REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

A. A PRACTICAL APPROACH

Chapter 6

Human
Rights Due Diligence and Corporate Governance . . . . 141

John F . Sherman
III

Chapter 7

Integrating Human Rights Due Diligence into Compliance Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Anahita
Thoms

Chapter 8

Making
the Connection: Operational-Level Grievance Diligence . . . . 195

Lisa J . Laplante

Chapter 9

Stakeholder Engagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Shauna
Curphey and Jared Cole

Chapter 10

Gender-Responsive Human Rights Due
Diligence . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Constance Z . Wagner and Nancy Kaymar Stafford

Chapter 11

Human Rights Due Diligence Practices for Adequate and
Effective Consultation with Indigenous Peoples
. . . . . . . . . 277

Thomas
Andrew O’Keefe

B. SPECIFIC CHALLENGES

Chapter 12

The United Nations Guiding
Principles on Business
and Human Rights and Global Supply
Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Andrea
Shemberg and Bettina Braun

Chapter 13

Leveraging the Financial Sector for
Human Rights . . . . . . . . . . 325

Margaret G . Wachenfeld

Chapter 14

Environmental Law and Climate
Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Carlos
de Miguel Perales and Austin Pierce

Chapter 15

Due Diligence
in Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas . . . . . 381

Morvarid
Bagheri

Index   ................................................................................... 403

Erscheinungsdatum	20.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chicago, IL
Sprache	englisch
Maße	177 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Gesellschaftsrecht
ISBN-10	1-63905-202-X / 163905202X
ISBN-13	978-1-63905-202-8 / 9781639052028
Zustand	Neuware