Monday, April 19, 2010

Symposium: Transnational Corporate Responsibility for the 21st Century

The current issue of the George Washington International Law Review (Vol. 40, no. 4, 2009) contains a symposium on "Transnational Corporate Responsibility for the 21st Century." Contents include:
  • Robert C. Thompson, Anita Ramasastry, & Mark B. Taylor, Translating Unocal: The Expanding Web of Liability for Business Entities Implicated in International Crimes
  • Liesbeth F.H. Enneking, Crossing the Atlantic? The Political and Legal Feasibility of European Foreign Direct Liability Cases
  • Jan Wouters & Cedric Ryngaert, Litigation for Overseas Corporate Human Rights Abuses in the European Union: The Challenge of Jurisdiction
  • Beate Sjåfjell, Internalizing Externalities in E.U. Law: Why Neither Corporate Governance nor Corporate Social Responsibility Provides the Answers
  • Ole Kristian Fauchald Jo Stigen, Corporate Responsibility before International Institutions
  • Adam McBeth, A Right by Any Other Name: The Evasive Engagement of International Financial Institutions with Human Rights
  • Radu Mares, Defining the Limits of Corporate Responsibilities against the Concept of Legal Positive Obligations