| Description |
xv, 585 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction Doreen McBarnet; Part I. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law: 1. Corporate social responsibility beyond law, through law, for law - the new corporate accountability Doreen McBarnet; Part II. Bringing Law into Corporate Social Responsibility: 2. Corporate social responsibility through contractual control? Global supply chains and 'other-regulation' Doreen McBarnet and Marina Kurkchiyan; 3. Corporate social responsibility and public procurement Christopher McCrudden; 4. Corporate codes of conduct - moral or legal obligation? Carola Glinski; 5. Corporate accountability through creative enforcement - human rights, the Alien Tort Claims Act and the limits of legal impunity Doreen McBarnet and Patrick Schmidt; 6. Bringing corporate social responsibility to the World Trade Organization Nicola Jägers; 7. Meta-Regulation - legal accountability for corporate social responsibility Christine Parker; Part III. Expanding Legal Accountabilities - Company Law and Beyond: 8. Disclosure Law and the Market for Corporate Social Responsibility Kevin Campbell and Douglas Vick; 9. The board as a path toward corporate social responsibility Lawrence E. Mitchell; 10. The new corporate law - corporate social responsibility and employees' interests Stephen Bottomley and Anthony Forsyth; 11. Shareholder activism for corporate social responsibility - law and practice in the US, Japan, France and Spain Bruno Amann, Jerome Caby, Jacques Jaussaud, and Juan Piñiero; 12. The other European framework for corporate social responsibility - from the Green Paper to new uses of human rights instruments Aurora Voiculescu; Part IV. Expanding Legal Accountabilities - Corporate Responsibility, Human Rights and the Environment: 13. Changing paradigms of corporate criminal responsibility - lessons for CSR Aurora Voiculescu; 14. Corporate social responsibility and international law - the case of human rights and multinational enterprises Peter Muchlinski; 15. 'The norms are dead! Long live the norms!' The politics behind the UN human rights norms for corporations David Kinley, Justine Nolan and Natalie Zerial; 16. Corporate environmental responsibility - law and the limits of voluntarism Neil Gunningham; 17. Power and responsibility - why human rights should address corporate environmental wrongs Amy Sinden; Part V. Moral and Analytical Issues in CSR and the Law: 18. The normative grounding of corporate social responsibility - a human rights approach Tom Campbell |
| Summary |
This book is about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the law, a pairing which at first sight might seem a contradiction in terms. The adoption by companies of CSR policies is, after all, routinely characterised as voluntary - a matter of business going the extra mile beyond what the law requires. If CSR is self-governance by business, however, it is self-governance that has received a firm push from external social and market forces, from forces of social accountability. -- OUP |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social responsibility of business.
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Corporate governance.
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Corporate governance -- Law and legislation.
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| Author |
McBarnet, Doreen J.
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Voiculescu, Aurora, 1964-
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Campbell, Tom, 1938-
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| ISBN |
9780521868181 hardback |
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0521868181 hardback |
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