Monday, March 22, 2021

New Issue: Business and Human Rights Journal

The latest issue of the Business and Human Rights Journal (Vol. 6, no. 1, February 2021) is out. Contents include:
  • Scholarly Articles
    • Genevieve LeBaron, Wages: An Overlooked Dimension of Business and Human Rights in Global Supply Chains
    • Danwood Chirwa & Nojeem Amodu, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Sustainable Development Goals, and Duties of Corporations: Rejecting the False Dichotomies
    • David Birchall, Corporate Power over Human Rights: An Analytical Framework
    • Mark Wielga & James Harrison, Assessing the Effectiveness of Non-State-Based Grievance Mechanisms in Providing Access to Remedy for Rightsholders: A Case Study of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
    • Chiara Macchi, The Climate Change Dimension of Business and Human Rights: The Gradual Consolidation of a Concept of ‘Climate Due Diligence’
  • Developments in the Field
    • Nicole Janz, James Allen-Robertson, Rajeshwari Majumdar, & Shareen Hertel, Big Data on BHR: Innovative Approaches to Analysing the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Database
    • John F. Sherman III, Irresponsible Exit: Exercising Force Majeure Provisions in Procurement Contracts
    • Rachel Chambers, Anthony Ewing, & Meg Roggensack, Teaching Business and Human Rights During the Pandemic
    • Elsa Savourey & Stéphane Brabant, The French Law on the Duty of Vigilance: Theoretical and Practical Challenges Since its Adoption
    • Stephanie Richard & Suzanne La Pierre, Expanding California’s Law to Increase Protections for Temporary Guest Workers Benefits Businesses
    • James Cockayne, Working with the Financial Sector to Correct the Market Failure of Modern Slavery
    • Christine Dowuona-Hammond, Raymond A. Atuguba, & Francis Xavier Dery Tuokuu, The Child Labour Quagmire in Ghana: Root Causes and Ephemeral Solutions