Transnational Corporations and Human Rights

Olivier De Schutter is a Global Law Professor at New York University and Co-ordinator of the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights. He is also a Professor at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and at the College of Europe (Natolin).

1. The Challenge of Imposing Human Rights Norms on Corporate Actors
Olivier De Schutter

Part I. The Responsibilities of States in Controlling Transnational Corporations

2. Beyond Unocal: Conceptual Problems in Using International Norms to Hold Transnational Corporations Liable under the Alien Tort Claims Act
Andrew J Wilson

3. The Effect of Bilateral Investment Treaties on Human Rights Enforcement and Realization
Ryan Suda

4. Competing for Foreign Direct Investment through the Creation of Export Processing Zones: The Impact on Human Rights
Chu Yun Juliana Nam

5. The North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation: An Effective Compromise between Harmonization of Labor Rights and Regulatory Competition?
Ana A Piquer

Part II. Self-regulation by Transnational Corporations

6. Corporate Codes of Conduct and the Human Rights Accountability of Transnational Corporations: A Small Piece of a Larger Puzzle
Fiona McLeay

7. International Framework Agreements: A Collaborative Paradigm for Labor Relations
Lisa R Price

Part III. Imposing Direct Obligations on Transnational Corporations under International Law

8. The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Case Study on Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
Asimina-Manto Papaioannou

9. Corporations and the International Criminal Court
Cristina Chiomenti

10. The Lack of Enforcement in the United Nations Draft Norms: Benefit or Disadvantage?
Jacob Gelfand

11. Overt and Hidden Accomplices. Transnational Corporations’ Range of Complicity for Human Rights Violations
Inés Tófalo

Part IV. Incentivizing Socially Responsible Corporate Conduct

12. The Promotion of Human Rights by Selective Public Procurement under International Trade Law
Katherine Zeisel

13. A Role for the International Finance Corporation in Integrating Environmental and Human Rights Standards into Core Project Covenants: Case Study of the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline Project
Terra Eve Lawson-Remer