Announcing Future Publication of "Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: From Due Diligence Standards to New Legal Norms"

 

 Claire Methven O'Brien and I are delighted to announce that Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: From Due Diligence Standards to New Legal Norms will be published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) in their Globalization: Law and Policy Series. The volume is expected to be publication in late 2023 or early 2024. 

Abstract

This volume brings together some of the most innovative and forward-thinking academics, practitioners, and commentators, from universities, non-governmental organizations, business, and government to collectively contribute to a deeper understanding of the emerging law of due diligence, especially as it touches on the human rights and sustainability elements of economic activities whether undertaken by public or private organizations.  Since its first authoritative transposition into the regulatory context of business and human rights, the concept of due diligence has proven to be a remarkably resilient and versatile instrument.  It has provided the structuring for the process of embedding human rights and then sustainability issues (including climate change) into the compliance and accountability regimes of business. It has also become the most important means for states, international actors, and others to develop a basis for a normative component to due diligence, one that aggregates the forms of due diligence with its purpose.  The concept of due diligence also bridges a number of regulatory gaps–between public and private law systems; between markets driven societal behavior management and regulatory and publicly administered systems of compliance and accountability; and between international hard and soft rule making and the constitutional systems of states. The essays are divided  into four broad sections,  The first  focuses on the elaboration of a conceptual framework. The second explores the operationalization of this conceptual foundation in and beyond the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights. Section three then shifts the lens to a deeper exploration  of contemporary efforts to legalize due diligence.  The volume ends with a consideration of tendencies, tensions, opportunities, and challenges in the legalization of corporate human rights due diligence.

More information about Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: From Due Diligence Standards to New Legal Norms may be accessed on the volume website which may be accessed here.  The list of contributors follows.

 Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: From Due Diligence Standards to New Legal Norms (Routledge, forthcoming)

 Editors:

Larry Catá Backer – Pennsylvania State University, W. Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law and International Affairs

Claire Methven O’Brien – University of Dundee, Lecturer in Law; Danish Institute for Human Rights, Senior Researcher

Contributors

Eric R. Biel – Fair Labor Association, Senior Advisor

Rachel Chambers – University of Connecticut Business School, Assistant Professor of Business Law; Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum, Co-Director

Jernej Letnar Černič – New University (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law, Faculty of Government and European Studies

Jeremie Gilbert – University of Roehampton Law School, Professor of Human Rights Law; Roehampton Climate Network, Founding Member

Carola Glinski – University of Copenhagen, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law

Cannelle Lavite – European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Co-Director of Business and Human Rights

Shelley Marshall – RMIT University, Associate Professor, College of Business and Law; RMIT Business and Human Rights Centre, Director

Olga Martin-Ortega – University of Greenwich, Professor of International Law, School of Law & Criminology; Business, Human Rights, and Environment Research Group, Leader

Susan Maslow – Antheil Maslow & MacMinn, LLP, Co-founder and Partner

Patrick Miller – P Miller Legal Services, Founding Attorney

Maria Monnheimer – Richterin am LG Hamburg

Justine Nolan – University of New South Wales, Professor, Faculty of Law and Justice, School of Global and Public Law; Australian Human Rights Institute, Director

Lucas Roorda – Utrecht University, Assistant Professor Faculty of Law, Economics, and Governance

Sara Seck – Dalhousie University, Associate Professor of Law, Yogis and Keddy Chair in Human Rights Law, Associate Dean, Research

Birgit Spieshofer – University of Bremen, Professor of Law; Dentons Europe LLP, Europe Chief Sustainability & Governance Counsel

David Snyder – American University, Professor of Law

Carlos Manuel Vázquez – Georgetown University, Professor of Law

Anil Yilmaz Vastardis – University of Essex School of Law and Human Rights Centre, Senior Lecturer