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The New Corporate Accountability
By
Doreen McBarnet, Aurora Voiculescu, Tom Campbell
Description
The adoption by
companies of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies is
routinely characterised as voluntary. But if CSR is self-governance
by business, it is self-governance that has received a firm push from
external social and market forces, from forces of social
accountability. Law is also playing a more significant role than the
image of CSR suggests, and this legal accountability - the focus of
the book - is set to increase. Legal intervention should not,
however, be seen as making social accountability redundant. Wider
ethical standards and social and market forces are also necessary to
make legal regulation effective. Law is being brought into play in
innovative and indirect ways. The initiative lies as much with
private organizations as with the state. At the same time governments
are using social and market forces to foster CSR. In the context of
corporate social responsibility, a new, multi-faceted, corporate
accountability is emerging.
• Both
academics and business practitioners will benefit from an
appreciation of the complex interaction of legal, social and economic
pressures to promote socially responsible conduct by corporations •
The book is unique in making the relationship between law and CSR its
chief focus • The book will serve to improve the quality of
dialogue between business, politicians, civil society and academics
on CSR by getting away from simplistic arguments for and against
making CSR a voluntary matter
Contents
Introduction
Doreen McBarnet; Part I. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law:
1. Corporate social responsibility beyond law, through law, for law -
the new corporate accountability Doreen McBarnet; Part II. Bringing
Law into Corporate Social Responsibility: 2. Corporate social
responsibility through contractual control? Global supply chains and
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'other-regulation\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' Doreen McBarnet and Marina Kurkchiyan; 3.
Corporate social responsibility and public procurement Christopher
McCrudden; 4. Corporate codes of conduct - moral or legal obligation?
Carola Glinski; 5. Corporate accountability through creative
enforcement - human rights, the Alien Tort Claims Act and the limits
of legal impunity Doreen McBarnet and Patrick Schmidt; 6. Bringing
corporate social responsibility to the World Trade Organization
Nicola Jägers; 7. Meta-Regulation - legal accountability for
corporate social responsibility Christine Parker; Part III. Expanding
Legal Accountabilities - Company Law and Beyond: 8. Disclosure Law
and the Market for Corporate Social Responsibility Kevin Campbell and
Douglas Vick; 9. The board as a path toward corporate social
responsibility Lawrence E. Mitchell; 10. The new corporate law -
corporate social responsibility and employees\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' interests Stephen
Bottomley and Anthony Forsyth; 11. Shareholder activism for corporate
social responsibility - law and practice in the US, Japan, France and
Spain Bruno Amann, Jerome Caby, Jacques Jaussaud, and Juan Piñiero;
12. The other European framework for corporate social responsibility
- from the Green Paper to new uses of human rights instruments Aurora
Voiculescu; Part IV. Expanding Legal Accountabilities - Corporate
Responsibility, Human Rights and the Environment: 13. Changing
paradigms of corporate criminal responsibility - lessons for CSR
Aurora Voiculescu; 14. Corporate social responsibility and
international law - the case of human rights and multinational
enterprises Peter Muchlinski; 15. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'The norms are dead! Long live the
norms!\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' The politics behind the UN human rights norms for
corporations David Kinley, Justine Nolan and Natalie Zerial; 16.
Corporate environmental responsibility - law and the limits of
voluntarism Neil Gunningham; 17. Power and responsibility - why human
rights should address corporate environmental wrongs Amy Sinden; Part
V. Moral and Analytical Issues in CSR and the Law: 18. The normative
grounding of corporate social responsibility - a human rights
approach Tom Campbell.
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