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Professors Call for Contracts to Enforce BHR Standards
December 08, 2015
Professor James Gathii and Associate Professor Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu argue that a new model of enforcement of contractual obligations could provide a remedy to people alleging business and human rights ("BHR") violations in the operations of companies in the extractive industry.
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Academic Argues for Strengthening of State Duties on BHR
December 08, 2015
Professor and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier de Schutter writes that countries should work toward a binding business and human rights ("BHR") treaty that establishes a government duty to implement the BHR agenda domestically and abroad and to cooperate to ensure a remedy for alleged victims of BHR violations.
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Article Seeks "Mandatory Regime" for BHR Liability
December 08, 2015
An article by Professor Emeritus Upendra Baxi proposes that some basic treaty obligations to prevent multinational corporations from causing "mass disasters" grow into a "mandatory regime of multinational liability" for violations of the global business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
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Academic Seeks Moral Basis of Corporate BHR Respect
December 07, 2015
In a recent article, Professor Emerita Patricia Werhane seeks to reconcile the argument that corporations are not "moral persons" with calls for corporate "respect" of the UN business and human rights ("BHR") agenda by finding that businesses have "secondary moral agency as organizations."
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Journal Reviews BHR "Best Practices" and Developments
December 07, 2015
A group of academics has launched a Business and Human Rights ("BHR") Journal with Cambridge University Press that they hope will serve as "the leading forum for scholarly articles in the BHR field."
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