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Corporate Citizen

New Perspectives on the Globalized Rule of Law

Oonagh E Fitzgerald editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The Centre for International Governance Innovation

Published:6th Oct '20

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Corporate and international law experts make the case for closer scrutiny and control of "global corporate citizens."

The contributors to Corporate Citizen explore the legal frameworks and standards of conduct for multinational corporations. In a globalized world governed by domestic and international law, these corporations can be everywhere and nowhere at once, reaping financial benefits and enjoying the protections of investor-state arbitration but rarely being held accountable for the economic, environmental, and human rights harms they may have caused. Given the far-reaching power and success of the transnational corporation, and the many legal tools allowing these companies to avoid liability, how can governments protect their citizens?

Broad-ranging in perspective, colourful and thought-provoking, the chapters in Corporate Citizen make the case that because the success of corporate global citizenship risks undermining national and international democratic governance, the multinational corporation must be more closely scrutinized and controlled – in the service of humanity and the protection of the natural environment.

ISBN: 9781928096931

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296 pages