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Podcast: In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Episode: Robert McCorquodale, "Business and Human Rights" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Description: Business and Human Rights Law is a rapidly growing area of law, which has dramatically transformed many parts of international law. In this new volume in the Elements series, Robert McCorquodale explores how the responsibility for human rights abuses has transitioned from a purely state obligation to also being the responsibility of businesses. Business responsibility for human rights impacts have become subject both to legislation and to court decisions whenever their activities lead to human rights abuses anywhere in the world.Business and Human Rights (Oxford UP, 2024) shows the importance of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and...