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Business and Human Rights Part XVI--Implementation: When International and National Norms Conflict

Posted on February 17, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part XIII--Elaboration: Effectiveness

Posted on February 14, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part XIV--Implementation: Consultation

Posted on February 14, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part XII--Elaboration; Applicability to All Business

Posted on February 13, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

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Business and Human Rights Part XI--Elaboration; What is Specific to Human Rights

Posted on February 12, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part X--Tracking and Reportiung Performance in Elements of Human Rights Due Diligence

Posted on February 10, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part IX--Intregration and Elements of Human Rights Due Diligence

Posted on February 09, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part VIII--Assessing Impacts and Elements of Human Rights Due Diligence

Posted on February 08, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part VII--Statement of Policy and Elements of Human Rights Due Diligence

Posted on February 07, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part VI--Elements of Human Rights Due Diligence

Posted on February 06, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part V: Human Rights Due Diligence--Introduction

Posted on February 05, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part IV: Foundations--Content of the Corporate Responsibility to Respect

Posted on February 04, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part III: Foundations--The Scope of the Responsibility to Protect

Posted on February 03, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part II--Thoughts on the Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights

Posted on February 02, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Business and Human Rights Part I--Thoughts on the Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights

Posted on February 01, 2010
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

France's Vision for Planetary Governance: Sarkozy's Davos Dream and the G20 as the Harbinger of Global Governance

Posted on January 31, 2010
Well over a year ago, after the current economic crisis became "official" with its acknowledgment in media and government circles, I suggested that the crisis presented a great temptation (and opportunity) for states to attempt to (1) reclaim their former position as the supreme point of governance tin the global order, and (2) to reclaim a primacy of governance through positive law conventionally adopted by states or groups of states...

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Internal Contests for Control of Sovereign Investing: Considering China and Brazil

Posted on January 30, 2010
Generally, the simplest answer or assumptions are bound to be correct. But sometimes efforts to simplify, and especially simplifying assumptions as a foundation to analysis, can lead away from useful analysis. These truisms are well known, yet for all the knowing the temptations of oversimplification are quite strong...

Africa Center for Corporate Responsibility and Capacity Building in the Niger River Delta

Posted on January 29, 2010
One of the great failings of the global human rights and corporate social responsibility movements has been the difficulty of shifting the focus of the movement from Western civil society actors projecting their power into developing states to empowering local civil society actors to confront and manage locally relevant issues...

What is a Corporation? : The Regulatory Effects of Different Conceptions of Corporate Personality in American Constitutional Law in Citizens United v. FEC

Posted on January 25, 2010
This essay reviews an aspect of the recently decided case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08-205 (argued March 24, 2009; reargued September 9, 2009, Decided Jan. 21, 2010). The opinions in the case may be downloaded at http://www...

China's Sovereign Wealth Fund's Operations August 2009 Through January 2010: The ActionPlans of Sovereign Activity in Private Markets

Posted on January 23, 2010
The Chinese Sovereign Wealth Fund has emerged at the end of last year as a powerful force in private markets. A review of its activities during the last six months suggests the way in which state policy, political objectives for economic activity can be harmoniously mixed with profit maximization to deepen a new form of investing that is neither entirely private (as conventionally understood) or wholly public...

When the Human Rights Obligations of Corporations Under National and International Standards Conflict: A Proposed Method for Analysis and Action

Posted on January 23, 2010
The Special Representative to the Secretary General of the United Nations, John Ruggie, has been engaged in the valuable exercise of seeking broad input as he refines a transnational framework for business and human rights. An important participatory vehicle for individuals and organizations interested in contributing to the developing transnational framework for regulating the human rights impacting conduct of economic enterprises was launched through the global online forum, www...

Who Owns the Name of God? Part II: Malaysia and Conflict at the Nexus of Law, Ethnicity, Culture, Politics and Religion

Posted on January 16, 2010
I have written about the controversy that arose in Malaysia over the decision by Christians to use the word Allah as the way to identify their conception of the Deity. Larry Catá Backer, Who Owns the Name of God? The Malaysian Government Knows!, Law at the End of the Day, Nov...

Using Corporate Law to Encourage Respect for Human Rights in Economic Transactions: Considering the November 2009 Summary Report on Corporate Law and Human Rights Under the UN SRSG Mandate

Posted on January 14, 2010
As part of the mandate of John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, an expert, multi-stakeholder consultation on that project was convened by Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto in November 2009...

On the Authority of Fidel Castro in Cuba--A Consequentialist View From the United States

Posted on January 12, 2010
The utter failure of the materialization of a thaw in relations between Cuba and the United States has been one of the great disappointments in U.S.-Cuba relations in the aftermath of the election of the current President of the United States.  Analysts in the United States tend to place the blame on the internal politics of Cuba, and specifically the state of relations between Fidel and Raúl Castro...

Regulating Global Capital Markets: Somali Pirate Capital Markets, the South Sea Bubble and the Limits of Law

Posted on January 02, 2010
The 21st century has seen its share of efforts to extend the power of the state to regulate economic activity in new and increasingly comprehensive ways.  The economic scandals at the start of the 21st century and the economic collapse of 2007-2008 provided national governments, and international organizations more than enough excuse to push ambitious agendas for control...

Booze and Immoral Women: Development and Control of Culture

Posted on January 02, 2010
It has become increasingly evident to global taste makers that culture rather than economics drives economic decisions individually, and in the aggregate affects the character of development (as that term is understood by those who finance, regulate and oversee the phenomenon)...

The Geography of Law and Religion

Posted on December 31, 2009
The end of the year is, in a sense, about borders.  A large chunk of the human community has chosen to create borders to mark the passage of time--but those divisions become borders.  they assume a spatial dimension as well as a chronological one...

On Theology and the Complications of Catholic-Muslim Relations: Looking to John Paul II

Posted on December 24, 2009
The last several years has witnessed a number of pointed eruptions in relations between Catholics and Islam. These have ranged from battles over the right to use the "name" of God to depictions of aspects of the faith.  I have written briefly on some of the more interesting recent points of eruption...

The Other Face of Modern Warfare: The U.K. Battlefront in the Israel-Palestine War

Posted on December 15, 2009
The Americans are busy justifying military campaigns.  Barack H. Obama, Remarks by the President at the Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10, 2009We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth:  We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes...

Pretext and Impiety in Iran

Posted on December 11, 2009
(Image from Iran opposition accused of insulting founder Khomeini, BBC News Online, Dec. 13, 2009).The English word pretext is said to derive from the Latin word praetextum--to disguise. But pretextum is the neuter past participle of an action word--praetexere--a word suggesting a weaving as an act of disguise...

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