A Guide to Human Rights Due Diligence for Lawyers
American Bar Association (Verlag)
978-1-63905-202-8 (ISBN)
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, unspecified |
| 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 |
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