Companies, International Trade and Human Rights

Informationen zum Autor JANET DINE is Professor of Law at the University of Essex and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies! London. Klappentext Seeking reasons for international trading regimes not meeting poverty reduction goals! this book focuses on the role of corporations within the trading system! and the complex relationships between corporations! nation states and international organizations. The actions of corporations and their underlying motives are considered as well as the structure of the international trading system and globalization. Zusammenfassung This book! originally published in 2005! considers the role of corporations within the trading system! including actions of corporations and their motives. The book assesses remedial devices such as Codes of Conduct and Human Rights instruments! seeking reasons for the failure of trade to reduce poverty! and considers the role of companies in globalisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Table of statutes, agreements, covenants and treaties; Table of cases; List of abbreviation; 1. A global crisis?; 2. Why we are here; 3. The institutional framework; 4. Relationship between Companies and Human Rights Law; 5. Corporate social responsibility; 6. Understanding property rights: companies, states and the duty of international co-operation; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Janet Dine, Janet (Queen Mary University of London) Dine, Dine Janet
• Assisted by: Barry Rider (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2005
• EAN: 9780521828611
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82861-1
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Corporate Law; Cambridge Studies in Corporate; Cambridge Studies in Corporate Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law