Required reading
Articles and extracts from books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in a compilation of texts (kompendium) which can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore at the Law Faculty (Domus Nova building).
Textbook:
Deva, Surya. Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations. Humanizing Business. London: Routledge, 2012. (240 pp.)
Articles compiled in a compendium:
*Darrow, Mac, 'World Bank and International Monetary Fund', Encyclopedia of Human Rights, Dec 2009 vol. 5, pp. 373-381 (9 pp.)
*Mestad, Ola, “Attribution of responsibility to listed companies” in Gro Nystuen, Andreas Føllesdal and Ola Mestad (eds). Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 79-106. (27 pp.)
*Ruggie, John Gerard. Just Business. Multinational Corporations and Human Rights. NY: Northon, 2013. Introduction and Ch. 1. (81 p.).
Articles available as E-journals or E-books:
The journal articles below are available in full text. The UN-reports below are available online.
Bård A. Andreassen and Vo Khanh Vinh, “Business’ Duties Across Borders: The New Human Rights Frontier” in Bård A Andreassen and Vo Khanh Vinh. Duties Across Borders. Advancing Human Rights in Transnational Business. Cambridge: Intersentia, 2016. http://intersentia.com/en/pdf/viewer/item/id/9781780683768_0/ (20 p.).
Gentian Zyberi. “Protection of the Environment from Serious Damage. Towards a Model of Shared Responsibility between International Cooperations and the State Concerned?” in Bård A Andreassen and Vo Khanh Vinh. Duties Across Borders. Advancing Human Rights in Transnational Business. Cambridge: Intersentia, 2016. http://intersentia.com/en/pdf/viewer/item/id/9781780683768_0/ (23 pp).
Gillies, Alexandra, ‘Reputational Concerns and the Emergence of Oil Sector Transparency as an International Norm‘, in International Studies Quarterly, Vol.54,No.1, pp. 103–126 http://www.jstor.org/journals/00208833.html (23 pp.).
Humberto Cantu-Rivera. “Corporate Accountability in the Field of Human Rights. On soft-law Standards and the Use of Extra-territorial Measures” in Bård A Andreassen and Vo Khanh Vinh. Duties Across Borders. Advancing Human Rights in Transnational Business. Cambridge: Intersentia, 2016. http://intersentia.com/en/pdf/viewer/item/id/9781780683768_0/ (25 p.).
Olivier de Schutter, “Towards a New Treaty on Business and Human Rights” in Business and Human Rights Journal, Vol 1 (1), 2016. (27 pp.).
Joseph, Sarah. Blame it on the WTO? A Human Rights Critique. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Chs. 1, 8 (51 pp) http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199565894.001.0001/acprof-9780199565894 (E-book)
Pye, Oliver and Jayati Bhattacharya (eds). Palm Oil Controversy in Southeast Asia' - A Transnational Perspective. ISEAS Publishing/Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013. Introduction pp. 1-18. http://books.google.no/books?id=oQOjuA3vXkMC&lpg=PA17&ots=Qaz8YPublishing/Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Introduction, 1-18 http://books.google.no/books?id=oQOjuA3vXkMC&lpg=PA17&ots=Qaz8YIEn7d&dq=Palm%20Oil%20Controversy%20in%20Southeast%20Asia'%20-%20A%20Transnational%20Perspective%20pdf&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false (18 pp).
Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, March 21, 2011. UN Human Rights Council. A/HRC/17/31. (27 pp.).
Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie, Addendum: States Obligations to Provide Access to Remedy for Human Rights Abuses by Third Parties, including Business: an Overview of International and Regional Provisions, Commentary and Decisions, 15 May 2009, UN Doc. A/HRC/11/13/Add. 1. (37 pp.).
Scruggs, Lyle, Shareen Hertel, Samuel J. Best, & Christopher Jeffords “Information, Choice and Political Consumption: Human Rights in the Checkout Lane” in Human Rights Quarterly Vol 33, No 4, 2012 (pp1092-1121) http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/ (E-journal). (29 pp.)
Ruggie, John (2014), “A UN Business and Human Rights Treaty?”, Issues Brief, http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/CSRI/UNBusinessandHumanRightsTreaty.pdf (5pp.)
Comments by Ruggie and Response of Surya Deva and David Bilchitz on Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect? (CUP, 2013) http://business-humanrights.org/media/ruggie-comment-surya-deva-david-bilchitz.pdf and http://www.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/surya-deva-david-bilchitz-re-ruggie-15-01-14.pdf (7 pp.)
Robert McCorquodale, Lise Smit, Stuart Neely and Robin Brooks, “Human Rights Due Diligence in Law and Practice: Good Practices and Challenges for Business Enterprises” in Business and Human Rights Journal. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-and-human-rights-journal/article/human-rights-due-diligence-in-law-and-practice-good-practices-and-challenges-for-business-enterprises/0306945323DD6F6C9392C5DBDE167001/core-reader (30 p.).
Kemp D and F Vanclay, ‘Human rights and impact assessment: clarifying the connections in practice’, 3(2) Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 2013, 86-96 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2013.782978 (11 pp.)
Report of the UN SR on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Human rights impact assessments – resolving key methodological questions, 2007. http://www.reports-and-materials.org/Ruggie-report-human-rights-impact-assessments-5-Feb-2007.pdf (25 pp.).
Shane Darcy. “The Elephant in the Room: Corporate Tax Avoidance & Business and Human Rights” in Business and Human Rights Journal Vol 2 (1), 2017. (30 pp.) https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/1D615D47FB0632DCFE365DB10F07ACF7/S2057019816000237a.pdf/elephant_in_the_room_corporate_tax_avoidance_business_and_human_rights.pdf
Total number of pages: 767
Cases
- Shakti v. Posco
- SERAC v. Nigeria
- Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum
- Akpan v. Royal Dutch Petroleum
- Bautista de Arellana v. Colombia
Recommended readings
Amaeshi, Kenneth, Onyeka Osuji, and Paul Nnodin (2008), 'Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains of Global Brands: A Boundaryless Responsibility? Clarifications, Exceptions and Implications', Journal of Business Ethics, 81, 223.234.
Bies, Robert, Jean Bartunek, Timothy Fort, and Mayer Zald (2007), 'Corporations as Social Change Agents: Individual, Institutional and Environmental Dynamics', The Academy of Management Review, 32(3), 788-793.
De Schutter, Olivier, Anita Ramasastry, Mark Taylor, and Robert Thompson (2012), Human Rights Due Diligence: The Role of States (Oslo: ICAR).
Deva, Surya and David Bilchitz (eds.), Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect? (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Indigenous rights vs agrarian reform in Indonesia: A case study from Jambi, Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict Report No. 9.
Joseph, Sarah (2008), 'Liability of Multinational Corporations', in Malcolm Langford (ed.), Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 613-627.
Lee, Min-Dong Paul (2008), 'A review of theories of corporate social responsibility: Its evolutionary path and the road ahead', International Journal of Management Review, 10(1), 53-73.
Narula, Smita, “International Financial Institutions, Transnational Corporations and Duties of States”, in Malcolm Langford, Martin Scheinin, Wouter Vandenhole and Willem van Genugten (eds.). Global Justice, State Duties: The Extra-Territorial Scope of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (50pp).
Nystuen, Gro, Andreas Føllesdal, and Ole Mestad (eds.) (2011), Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Pye, Oliver and Jayati Bhattacharya (eds.). Palm Oil Controversy in Southeast Asia' - A Transnational Perspective, 2013, ISEAS Publishing/Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, ch. 3, 48-75.
Ruggie, John, “Human rights impact assessments – resolving key methodological questions”, A/HRC/4/74, 5 February 2007. Website here: https://business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/reports-and-materials/Ruggie-report-human-rights-impact-assessments-5-Feb-2007.pdf
Standards
De Schutter, Olivier et al. “Commentary to the Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Human” in Human Rights Quarterly 34 (2012).
Equator Principles for the banking sector (2003)
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
IAIA, Social Impact Assessment International Principles, Special Publication Series No.2. 2003.
ISO Standard 26000 on Social Responsibility (2010).
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (1976/2000/2011)
Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, for download here: http://www.etoconsortium.org/nc/en/main-navigation/library/maastricht-principles/?tx_drblob_pi1%5BdownloadUid%5D=23
The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme in the diamonds sector (2003) and Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (2002)
UN Global Compact (1999)
UN Principles for Responsible Investment (2006)
Guides, Corporate Practices, Studies
DIHR and IPIECA, Integrating human rights into environmental, social and health impact assessments. A practical guide for the oil and gas industry, 2013.
Rights and Democracy, Human rights impact assessments for foreign investment projects: Learning from community experiences in the Philippines, Tibet, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Argentina and Peru (2007).
Nestle and DIHR, Talking the Human Rights Walk. Nestle’s experience assssing human rights impacts in its business activities, 2013.
UNICEF and DIHR, Children’s rights in impact assessments. A guide for integrating children’s rights into impact assessments and taking action for children, 2013.
Oxfam Australia, Women, communities and mining: The gender impacts of mining and the role of gender impact assessment. 2009.
Amnesty (2014), Injustice Incorporated: Corporate Abuses and the Human Right to Remedy (London: Amnesty International)don: Amnesty International).