Enough talk – it is time to start engaging seriously with the international law framework for corporate social responsibility and the possibilities it offers, says Jennifer Zerk
Professor John Ruggie’s mandate, as the UN secretary-general’s special representative on business and human rights, has certainly given international lawyers plenty to think about.
Are multinationals directly regulated by international law? What kinds of human rights standards are they subject to? What do these mean in practice? And whose responsibility is it anyway, to make sure these standards are met?
These are important questions, and the fact that they are being asked at all says a lot about how our expectations of international law are changing.
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