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Preface ix
Table of treaties, declarations and other international instruments xi
Table of cases xvi
Table of statutes and statutory instruments xxi
List of abbreviations xxiv
Introduction 1
Part I Regulatory issues and problems
1 Multinationals and corporate social responsibility: a new regulatory agenda 7
Why are people so concerned about multinationals? 8
The rise of the CSR movement 15
Defining 'corporate social responsibility' 29
Regulation in a deregulatory era 32
Corporate social responsibility and human rights 42
Designing regulatory responses: some persistent problems 44
Conclusion 58
2 Multinationals under international law 60
What is international law? 61
Who makes international law? 62
The concept of international legal personality 72
Multinationals and human rights 76
The role of non-state actors 93
Conclusion 103
3 Multinationals under national law: the problem of jurisdiction 104
The limits of jurisdiction under public international law 105
The limits of jurisdiction under private international law 113
Extraterritorial CSR regulation of multinationals: time for a rethink? 133
An alternative definition of 'extraterritoriality' 140
Conclusion 142
Part II Home state regulation of multinationals
4 New directions in extraterritorial regulation of CSR standards 145
Defining the 'home state' 146
Why do 'home states' have an interest in the foreign CSR standards of multinationals? 151
Extraterritorial regulatory techniques: recent state practice 160
Home state CSR initiatives under international law 194
Conclusion 196
5 Private claims for personal injury and environmental harm 198
Tort-based claims 200
The US Alien Tort Claims Act (`ATCA') 207
Theories of parent company liability 216
Parent company liability and the relevance of the organisational form 234
Implications for international law 237
Conclusion 239
Part III International regulation of multinationals
6 Towards an international law of CSR? 243
International CSR standards for multinationals: a brief history 244
Emerging legal principles 262
International CSR regulation: proposals, precedents and possibilities 278
Precedents in international CSR regulation 284
Conclusion 297
7 Multinationals and CSR: limitations and opportunities in international law 299
The developing role of home states 300
Direct obligations for multinationals? 304
On the outside looking in: implications for less developed host states 306
Conclusion 309
Bibliography 311