The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law
by Edited by Doreen McBarnet, Aurora Voiculescu, Tom CampbellEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-10-31
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| List of Contributors | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law | |
| Corporate social responsibility beyond law, through law, for law: the new corporate accountability | p. 9 |
| Bringing Law into Corporate Social Responsibility | |
| Corporate social responsibility through contractual control? Global supply chains and 'other-regulation' | p. 59 |
| Corporate social responsibility and public procurement | p. 93 |
| Corporate codes of conduct: moral or legal obligation? | p. 119 |
| Corporate accountability through creative enforcement: human rights, the Alien Tort Claims Act and the limits of legal impunity | p. 148 |
| Bringing corporate social responsibility to the World Trade Organisation | p. 177 |
| Meta-regulation: legal accountability for corporate social responsibility | p. 207 |
| Expanding Legal Accountabilities: Company Law and Beyond | |
| Disclosure law and the market for corporate social responsibility | p. 241 |
| The board as a path toward corporate social responsibility | p. 279 |
| The new corporate law: corporate social responsibility and employees' interests | p. 307 |
| Shareholder activism for corporate social responsibility: law and practice in the United States, Japan, France and Spain | p. 336 |
| The other European framework for corporate social responsibility: from the Green Paper to new uses of human rights instruments | p. 365 |
| Expanding Legal Accountabilities: Corporate Responsibility, Human Rights and the Environment | |
| Changing paradigms of corporate criminal responsibility: lessons for corporate social responsibility | p. 399 |
| Corporate social responsibility and international law: the case of human rights and multinational enterprises | p. 431 |
| 'The Norms are dead! Long live the Norms!' The politics behind the UN Human Rights Norms for corporations | p. 459 |
| Corporate environmental responsibility: law and the limits of voluntarism | p. 476 |
| Power and responsibility: why human rights should address corporate environmental wrongs | p. 501 |
| Moral and Analytical Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law | |
| The normative grounding of corporate social responsibility: a human rights approach | p. 529 |
| Index | p. 565 |
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