Tuesday, October 6, 2020

New Issue: Business and Human Rights Journal

The latest issue of the Business and Human Rights Journal (Vol. 5, no. 2, July 2020) is out. Contents include:
  • Scholarly Articles
    • Beate Sjåfjell, How Company Law Has Failed Human Rights – and What to Do About It
    • Nadia Bernaz & Irene Pietropaoli, Developing a Business and Human Rights Treaty: Lessons from the Deep Seabed
    • Mining Regime under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
    • John E. Katsos, Business, Human Rights and Peace: Linking the Academic Conversation
    • Upendra Baxi, Nevsun: A Ray of Hope in a Darkening Landscape?
  • Developments in the Field
    • Salil Tripathi, Companies, COVID-19 and Respect for Human Rights
    • Lise Smit, Claire Bright, Irene Pietropaoli, Julianne Hughes-Jennett & Peter Hood, Business Views on Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Regulation: A Comparative Analysis of Two Recent Studies
    • Jelena Aparac, Business and Armed Non-State Groups: Challenging the Landscape of Corporate (Un)accountability in Armed Conflicts
    • Gabriela Quijano, Lithium Might Hold the Key to our Clean Energy Future, but Will this Star Metal Fully Deliver on its Green Potential?
    • Marco Simons & MacKennan Graziano, Jam v International Finance Corporation: The US Supreme Court Decision and its Aftermath
    • Makbule Sahan, The First International Standard on Violence and Harassment in the World of Work
    • Emmanuel Umpula Nkumba, How to Reduce Conflicts Between Mining Companies and Artisanal Miners in the Province of Lualaba: Overcoming the Policy and Systemic Barriers to a Model that Respects Human Rights