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Business and human rights : foundations and linkages / Ilias Bantekas -- Reconciling international human rights with international trade / Francesco Seatzu -- Neo-liberalism, state-capitalism and European ordo-liberalism : why power politics and 'constitutional failures' undermine economic law and human rights / Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann -- Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility / John Paterson -- The role of business in international development and the attainment of the sustainable development goals / Katerina Akestoridi -- The business case for human rights - irrelevant or indispensable? / Dorothee Baumann-Pauly and Lilach Trabelsi -- The UN guiding principles on business and human rights and its predecessors : progress at a snail's pace? / Surya Deva -- The regulatory framework of multinational enterprises / Peter Muchlinski -- The UN global compact and the OECD guidelines on multinational enterprises and their enforcement mechanisms / Andreas Rasche -- Taxation and business : the human rights dimension of corporate tax practices / Reuven Avi-Yonah -- Corporate accountability for the natural environment and climate change / Damilola S. Olawuyi -- Corporate accountability for corruption and the business case for transparency / Philip M Nichols -- Disability, business and human rights / Michael Ashley Stein -- Gender, business and human rights / Jessica Lynn Corsi -- The business sector and the rights to work and just and favourable conditions of work / Marija Jovanovic -- Responsible lending : export credit agencies as drivers of human rights / Aline Darbellay -- Business and human rights approaches to intellectual property / Molly Land and Lea Nesselhauf -- The role of human rights in investment law and arbitration : state obligations, corporate responsibility, and community empowerment / Silvia Steininger -- The use of international arbitration tribunals for business and human rights disputes / Judith Levine and Sarah Castles -- Innovative contractual remedies with indigenous peoples / Kinnari Bhatt -- The role of ethics in corporate human rights impact assessments / Ilias Bantekas -- Addressing human rights impacts in sustainability reporting / Chiara Ferracioli and Julian Parkhomenko -- Leveraging the consumer-led movement to strengthen sustainable business : opportunities, limitations and the role of companies to empower consumers / Anna Triponel -- The structural complexity of multinational corporations and the effect on managing human rights risks in the supply chain / Tam Nguyen -- Towards a UN business and human rights treaty / Ilias Bantekas.

"Where does one situate business and human rights? From the perspective of law alone, business falls within the general sphere of private law, further broken down into discrete sub-spheres, particularly corporate law and commercial law. The human rights component is situated in constitutional and international law. Prima facie, 'business' and 'human rights' fall into distinct spheres of regulation and differ in their primary sources. If law were simply approached from a compartmentalized perspective, business would be of no relevance to human rights and vice versa. This, however, is artificial and is antithetical to holistic approaches to problem solving, not to mention the inter-connectivity of law.1 It is unfortunate that in simplifying the study of law through the creation of sub-disciplines, the emergence of sub-discipline expertise (e.g. labor law) has magnified the differences between them"-- ECIP Introduction.