Monday, August 23, 2021

New Issue: Business and Human Rights Journal

The latest issue of the Business and Human Rights Journal (Vol. 6, no. 2, June 2021) is out. Contents include:
  • Special Issue: BHR Landscape after 10 years of the UNGPs: An Assessment
    • John Gerard Ruggie, Caroline Rees, & Rachel Davis, Ten Years After: From UN Guiding Principles to Multi-Fiduciary Obligations
    • Nicola Jägers, UN Guiding Principles at 10: Permeating Narratives or Yet Another Silo?
    • Peter Muchlinski, The Impact of the UN Guiding Principles on Business Attitudes to Observing Human Rights
    • Andreas Rasche & Sandra Waddock, The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implications for Corporate Social Responsibility Research
    • Gabriela Quijano & Carlos Lopez, Rise of Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence: A Beacon of Hope or a Double-Edged Sword?
    • Richard Meeran, Multinational Human Rights Litigation in the UK: A Retrospective
    • Charles Abrahams, The South African Experience: Litigating Remedies
    • Vasanthi Srinivasan & Parvathy Venkatachalam, A Decade of the UNGPs in India: Progressive Policy Shifts, Contested Implementation
    • Anita Ramasastry, Advisors or Enablers? Bringing Professional Service Providers into the Guiding Principles’ Fold
    • Florian Wettstein, Betting on the Wrong (Trojan) Horse: CSR and the Implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
    • Michael A. Santoro, Why the United Nations is Not the Ideal Forum for Business and Human Rights: The UNGPs and the Right to COVID-19 Vaccine Access in the Global South
    • Surya Deva, The UN Guiding Principles’ Orbit and Other Regulatory Regimes in the Business and Human Rights Universe: Managing the Interface
  • Developments in the Field
    • Teresa Scassa, Pandemic Innovation: The Private Sector and the Development of Contact-Tracing and Exposure Notification Apps
    • Lorenzo Cotula, EU–China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: An Appraisal of its Sustainable Development Section
    • Lucas Roorda & Daniel Leader, Okpabi v Shell and Four Nigerian Farmers v Shell: Parent Company Liability Back in Court
    • Anirudha Nagar, The Juukan Gorge Incident: Key Lessons on Free, Prior and Informed Consent
    • Ruwan Subasinghe, A Neatly Engineered Stalemate: A Review of the Sixth Session of Negotiations on a Treaty on Business and Human Rights
    • Francesca Farrington, Municipio de Mariana v BHP Group: Implications of the UK High Court’s Decision