Globalization and the growth of multinational enterprises (MNEs) have been accompanied
by an increasing call for corporations to take responsibility for their environmental and social …

Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often
not held to account. Emblematic cases and situations such as the state of the Niger Delta …

In the 1990s, thousands of banana workers sued Dow Chemical Company in courts
throughout the United States over alleged exposure to DBCP, a Dow-manufactured …

Also available as an e-book The book argues that the decision-making processes within
international organizations and other global governance bodies ought to be subjected to …

Key accomplishments of political corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship have
been the identification of global governance gaps and a proposal how to tackle them …

Imposing legal liability on corporations for their involvement in human rights violations
remains problematic. In the United States, civil liability in such circumstances developed in a …

The sands of corporate criminal liability for atrocities are shifting. Demands for corporate
accountability have risen significantly over the last decades and have manifested …

International Law in the US Legal System provides a wide-ranging overview of how
international law intersects with the domestic legal system of the United States, and points …

In November 2013, Swiss authorities announced a criminal investigation into one of the
world's largest gold refineries on the basis that the company committed a war crime. The …

Providing a unique and clearly structured tool, this book presents an authoritative collection
of carefully selected global case studies. Some of these are considered global due to their …