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A step in the right direction, or more of the same? A systematic review of the impact of human rights due diligence legislation
Recently, there has been a strong push for binding human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation, both at the national and European levels. As...
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Beyond Due Diligence: the Human Rights Corporation
The modern corporation offers significant potential to contribute to the human rights project, in part because it is free from the challenges posed...
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Chapter 9: Due Diligence and the Profit Motive: Perfect or Imperfect Duty?
The pursuit of shareholder wealth is not a contractual obligation of management, and therefore not a perfect duty. It is an imperfect duty that has...
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Chapter 6: The Nexus of Managerial Imperfect Duty: Relations of Virtue, Discourse, and Due Diligence
The nexus of imperfect managerial-duty is defined as management’s collection of volitional attitudes and actions in pursuit of a moral purpose, but...
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Beyond Crisis: Understandings of Vulnerability and Its Consequences in Relation to Intimate Partner Violence
This article takes a closer look at intimate partner violence (IPV) and its semantical, political, and legal interactions with crisis and crisis...
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Business Strategy as Human Rights Risk: the Case of Private Equity
In this article, we apply the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the private equity (PE) business model. PE firms often adopt a...
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The ‘Court of Public Opinion:’ Public Perceptions of Business Involvement in Human Rights Violations
Public pressure is essential for providing multinational enterprises (MNEs) with motivation to follow the standards of human rights conduct set in...
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Do Your Homework! A Rights-Based Zetetic Account of Alleged Cases of Doxastic Wronging
This paper offers an alternate explanation of cases from the doxastic wronging literature. These cases violate what I call the degree of inquiry right ...
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Rethinking Effective Remedies to the Climate Crisis: a Vulnerability Theory Approach
Although the harmful effects of climate change on human rights are well-recognized, the legal response to the climate crisis has been inadequate....
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Analysis
The following chapter examines Germany’s Due Diligence Act (DDA), commonly known as Supply Chain Law, as a statutory instrument to encourage and...
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Joseph Heath’s Ethics for Capitalists: The Market Failures Approach 2.0
In his latest book, Ethics for Capitalists , Joseph Heath draws on his many years of thinking about business ethics to propose, as the book’s subtitle...
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Uncovering Economic Complicity: Explaining State-Led Human Rights Abuses in the Corporate Context
Today’s scholarship and policymaking on business and human rights (BHR) urges businesses to better understand their human rights responsibilities and...
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Putting the French Duty of Vigilance Law in Context: Towards Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations in the Global South?
The adoption of the French Duty of Vigilance law has been celebrated as a milestone for advancing the transnational business and human rights regime....
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When Doctors and AI Interact: on Human Responsibility for Artificial Risks
A discussion concerning whether to conceive Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems as responsible moral entities, also known as “artificial moral...
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Black Hole Instead of Black Box?: The Double Opaqueness of Recommender Systems on Gaming Platforms and Its Legal Implications
Recommender systems that support us in our everyday lives are becoming more precise and accurate in terms of the appropriateness of recommendations...
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Climate Change and Anti-Meaning
In this paper, we propose meaningfulness as one important evaluative criterion in individual climate ethics and suggest that most of our greenhouse...
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Academic Bullying and Human Rights: Is It Time to Take Them Seriously?
Notwithstanding universities’ many laudable aims, incidents of serious bullying, academic harassment and sexual harassment in academic settings are...
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Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War
Over 1000 companies have either curtailed or else completely ceased operations in Russia as a response to its invasion of Ukraine, a mass corporate...
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Freedom of Conscience and Medical Assistance in Dying—Clinical Perspective
In Carter v. CanadaCanada (Attorney General), the Supreme CourtSupreme Court of Canada emphasized that a physician’s decision to participate in...
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Scoring the Ethics of AI Robo-Advice: Why We Need Gateways and Ratings
Unlike the many services already transformed by artificial intelligence ( AI ), the financial advice sector remains committed to a human interface....
