OUVRAGE : N. Bernaz, Business and Human Rights. History, Law and Policy: Bridging the Accountability Gap

Nadia BERNAZ

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 and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory are examples of corporate human rights abuses which are not adequately prevented and remedied. Business and human rights as a field seeks to enhance the accountability of business – companies and businesspeople – in the human rights area, or, to phrase it differently, to bridge the accountability gap. Bridging the accountability gap is to be understood as both setting standards and holding corporations and businesspeople to account if violations occur.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction

Part I. HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS: LIMITED CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY

2. The Atlantic Slave Trade: a "Business and Human Rights" Reading
3. International Labour Law: Early Development and Contemporary Significance for the Field of Business and Human Rights
4. Doing Business with the Nazis: the Criminal Prosecution of German Industrialists after the Second World War

Part II. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLICY: LIMITATIONS AND PROGRESS

5. Business, International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law: Shifting Boundaries
6. Human Rights and International Economic Law: Connecting the Dots
7. Expanding International Regulation in Business and Human Rights
8. Private Regulation in Business and Human Rights

Part III. DOMESTIC LAW AND POLICY: EMBEDDING HUMAN RIGHTS IN BUSINESS PRACTICE

9. Shaping Law and Public Policies
10. Business and Human Rights Litigation before Domestic Courts: Remaining Obstacles

11. Conclusion: The Future of Business and Human Rights

Nadia BERNAZ, Business and Human Rights. History, Law and Policy: Bridging the Accountability Gap, Oxford, Routledge, 2017 (314 pp.)