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Business and Human Rights book published

07/08/24

Robert McCorquodale has published Business and Human Rights, which explores how the responsibility for human rights abuses has transitioned from being a solely state obligation to also being a responsibility of businesses. This responsibility includes adverse human rights impacts arising from environmental and climate change damages.

Business responsibility for human rights impacts has become subject both to legislation and to court decisions, including in ground-breaking cases in which Robert and other Brick Court Chambers members have been involved. The book shows the importance of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and its influence on international, EU and various national law.

This is a rapidly growing field, for which this book provides a clear and coherent examination of its various elements, and is by someone who has been working in this field for about 30 years. Further details of the book can be found here: Business and Human Rights - Paperback - Robert McCorquodale - Oxford University Press (oup.com).