The New Corporate Accountability

Introduction Doreen McBarnet; Part I. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law: 1. Corporate social responsibility beyond law, through law, for law - the new corporate accountability Doreen McBarnet; Part II. Bringing Law into Corporate Social Responsibility: 2. Corporate social responsibility through contractual control? Global supply chains and 'other-regulation' Doreen McBarnet and Marina Kurkchiyan; 3. Corporate social responsibility and public procurement Christopher McCrudden; 4. Corporate codes of conduct - moral or legal obligation? Carola Glinski; 5. Corporate accountability through creative enforcement - human rights, the Alien Tort Claims Act and the limits of legal impunity Doreen McBarnet and Patrick Schmidt; 6. Bringing corporate social responsibility to the World Trade Organization Nicola Jägers; 7. Meta-regulation - legal accountability for corporate social responsibility Christine Parker; Part III. Expanding Legal Accountabilities - Company Law and Beyond: 8. Disclosure law and the market for corporate social responsibility Kevin Campbell and Douglas Vick; 9. The board as a path toward corporate social responsibility Lawrence E. Mitchell; 10. The new corporate law - corporate social responsibility and employees' interests Stephen Bottomley and Anthony Forsyth; 11. Shareholder activism for corporate social responsibility - law and practice in the US, Japan, France and Spain Bruno Amann, Jerome Caby, Jacques Jaussaud and Juan Piñiero; 12. The other European framework for corporate social responsibility - from the green paper to new uses of human rights instruments Aurora Voiculescu; Part IV. Expanding Legal Accountabilities - Corporate Responsibility, Human Rights and the Environment: 13. Changing paradigms of corporate criminal responsibility - lessons for CSR Aurora Voiculescu; 14. Corporate social responsibility and international law - the case of human rights and multinational enterprises Peter Muchlinski; 15. 'The norms are dead! Long live the norms!' The politics behind the UN human rights norms for corporations David Kinley, Justine Nolan and Natalie Zerial; 16. Corporate environmental responsibility - law and the limits of voluntarism Neil Gunningham; 17. Power and responsibility - why human rights should address corporate environmental wrongs Amy Sinden; Part V. Moral and Analytical Issues in CSR and the Law: 18. The normative grounding of corporate social responsibility - a human rights approach Tom Campbell.