Table of Contents

1. Human Rights in Business Contexts: An Overview - Aurora Voiculescu and Helen Yanacopulos 2. Human Rights and the Normative Ordering of Global Capitalism - Aurora Voiculescu 3. Brands, Corporate Social Responsibility and Reputation Management - Fiona Harris 4. Transforming Labour Standards to Labour Rights - Piya Pangsapa and Mark J. Smith 5. Violent Corporate Crime, Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights - Gary Slapper 6. Access to Medicines: Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights and Justice - Keren Bright and Lois Muragur 7. Foundations: Actors of Change? - Helen Yanacopulos 8. Combating Transnational Corporate Corruption: Enhancing Human Rights and Good Governance - John Hatchard 9. Business in Zones of Conflict: An Emergent Corporate Security Responsibility? - Nicole Dietelhoff and Klaus Deiter Wolf 10. Human Rights, Ethics and International Business: the Case of Nigeria - Olufemi Amao 11. Clusters of Injustice: Human Rights, Environmental Sustainability and Labour Standards - Mark J. Smith and Piya Pangsapa

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An essential text that provides a human rights approach to corporate responsibilities across the globe.

About the Author

Aurora Voiculescu is an academic in the Centre for Law at Open University Business School and an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University. Between 1999 and 2003 she was a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow in Law at Lincoln College, Oxford University. Her teaching, research work and publications are in the area of human rights, in particular in connection to collective and corporate agency and responsibility. Her research focuses on the interplay between the human rights discourse and the global market agencies such as the Transnational Corporations and the intergovernmental economic and financial institutions. She is the author of Human Rights and Political Justice in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Prosecuting History (2000), co-editor (with Doreen McBarnet and Tom Campbell) of The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law (2007). Helen Yanacopulos is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Development at the Open University. She worked in finance in the corporate and the not-for-profit sectors before her PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on how political institutions and processes involve and affect people in the South, specifically in Africa and Asia. She is co-author of the forthcoming book International Development Actors and Public Engagement , and co-editor (with Joe Hanlon) of Civil War, Civil Peace (2005). She has acted as a consultant to various international agencies in matters of civil society, labour and human rights.

Reviews

This book provides a very good selection of the range of issues of corporate responsibility in the area of human rights. The authors offer insightful engagement with a variety of issues based on application to relevant examples in practice and from different perspectives. It is a most interesting introduction to some of these important and difficult matters that affect the world. Professor Robert McCorquodale, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Nottingham and Director of British Institute of International and Comparative Law