Multinationals and Corporate Social Responsibility
Limitations and Opportunities in International Law

Explores what the CSR movement means for multinationals, for states and for international law.

Jennifer A. Zerk (Author)

9780521175203, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 March 2011

368 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.49 kg

'… this book provides the reader with an insightful summation of the principal challenges faced in advancing the CSR regulatory agenda, why such progress is difficult and highlights a potential toolbox of tactics to advance corporate accountability for human rights and environmental abuses.' Justine Nolan, The Modern Law Review

The 'corporate social responsibility' ('CSR') movement has been described as one of the most important social movements of our time. This book looks at what the CSR movement means for multinationals, for states and for international law. International law is often criticized for being too 'state-centred', and ill-equipped to deal with the challenges of globalization. However, drawing from many and varied examples of state, NGO and corporate practice, this 2006 book argues that, while international law has its limitations, it presents more opportunities for the CSR regulation of multinationals than many people assume. The main obstacles to better regulation are, therefore, not legal, but political.

Preface
Table of treaties, declarations and other international instruments
Table of cases
Table of statutes and statutory instruments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Regulatory Issues and Problems: 1. Multinationals and corporate social responsibility: a new regulatory agenda
2. Multinationals under international law
3. Multinationals under national law: the problem of jurisdiction
Part II. Home State Regulation of Multinationals: 4. New directions in extraterritorial regulation of CSR standards
5. Private claims for personal injury and environmental harm
Part III. International Regulation of Multinationals: 6. Towards an international law of CSR?
7. Multinationals and CSR: limitations and opportunities in international law
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Company law [LNCD], Commercial law [LNCB], Company, commercial & competition law [LNC], Business & management [KJ]