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  • Human Rights Obligations of Business

    Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect?

    Edited by Surya Deva, David Bilchitz ...
    In recent years, the UN Human Rights Council has approved the 'Respect, Protect, and Remedy' Framework and endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. These developments have been welcomed widely, but do they adequately address the challenges concerning the human rights obligations of business? This volume of essays engages critically with these important developments. The ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights

    Context and Contours

    Edited by Surya Deva, David Bilchitz ...
    The calls for an international treaty to elaborate the human rights obligations of transnational corporations and other business enterprises have been rapidly growing, due to the failures of existing regulatory initiatives in holding powerful business actors accountable for human rights abuses. In response, Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights explores the context and content of such a ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets

    Comparative Insights from India and China

    Edited by Surya Deva ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    In the last decade or so, China and India have emerged on the global stage as two powerful free market economies. The tremendous economic growth in China and India has meant that they have been able to lift millions of people out of the poverty trap. This growth has not, however, been without problems. Apart from worrying levels of environmental pollution, a significant number of people are still ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia

    Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion

    Edited by Roger Hood, Surya Deva ...
    With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights, there has been a rapid increase in recent years in the number of countries that have completely abolished the death penalty. This is in recognition that it is a violation of the right to life and the right to be free from cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. There has, simultaneously, been pressure on countries that still retain capital ... Read more

    $106.19 USD

  • Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations

    Humanizing Business

    by Surya Deva ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    Despite the continuous addition of regulatory initiatives concerning corporate human rights responsibilities, what we witness more often than not is a situation of corporate impunity for human rights abuses. The Bhopal gas leak – examined as a site of human rights violations rather than as a mass tort or an environmental tragedy – illustrates that the regulatory challenges that the victims ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Politics of the Death Penalty in Countries in Transition

    Edited by Madoka Futamura, Nadia Bernaz ...
    The increase in the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty since the end of the Second World War shows a steady trend towards worldwide abolition of capital punishment. This book focuses on the political and legal issues raised by the death penalty in "countries in transition", understood as countries that have transitioned or are transitioning from conflict to peace, or from ... Read more

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  • Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism

    by Sol Picciotto ...
    Series series International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation
    This analysis of how multi-level networked governance has superseded the liberal system of interdependent states focuses on the role of law in mediating power and shows how lawyers have shaped the main features of capitalism, especially the transnational corporation. It covers the main institutions regulating the world economy, including the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO and a myriad of other ... Read more

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  • Human Dignity

    The Constitutional Value and the Constitutional Right

    by Aharon Barak ...
    Human dignity is now a central feature of many modern constitutions and international documents. As a constitutional value, human dignity involves a person's free will, autonomy, and ability to write a life story within the framework of society. As a constitutional right, it gives full expression to the value of human dignity, subject to the specific demands of constitutional architecture. This ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Justice Miscarried

    Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada

    by Helena Katz ...
    Former bank manager Ronald Dalton never got to watch his three young children grow up. In 1989 he was convicted for a crime that never happened. His wife, Brenda, was later ruled to have choked to death on breakfast cereal not strangled as a pathologist had initially claimed. Dalton's daughter, Alison, was in kindergarten when he was charged with second-degree murder in 1988. He attended her high ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance

    Edited by Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey, Igor Filatotchev ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The behavior of managers-such as the rewards they obtain for poor performance, the role of boards of directors in monitoring managers, and the regulatory framework covering the corporate governance mechanisms that are put in place to ensure managers' accountability to shareholder and other stakeholders-has been the subject of extensive media and policy scrutiny in light of the financial crisis of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Rights of Indians and Tribes

    by Stephen L. Pevar ...
    The Rights of Indians and Tribes, first published in 1983, has sold over 100,000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law. The book, which explains this complex subject in a clear and easy-to-understand way, is particularly useful for tribal advocates, government officials, students, practitioners of Indian law, and the general public. Numerous tribal leaders ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Song Machine

    Inside the Hit Factory

    by John Seabrook ...
    "An utterly satisfying examination of the business of popular music." —Nathaniel Rich, The AtlanticThere’s a reason today’s ubiquitous pop hits are so hard to ignore—they’re designed that way. The Song Machine goes behind the scenes to offer an insider’s look at the global hit factories manufacturing the songs that have everyone hooked. Full of vivid, unexpected characters—alongside industry heavy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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