The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ─ Foundations and Implementation

This book addresses a variety of issues surrounding the UN's Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights of 2011, which were considered to become "the reference point for corporate social responsibility" over the next decade. The authors address that and the work of UN Special Representative for human rights and business John Ruggie and his 2010 mandate--and an avalanche of significant questions that sprang from it regarding its overall strength, its consequence to rights holders, implications for business and policy makers, and regulation and governance. Editor Mares (senior researcher, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden) and 17 co-authors made contributions to the book. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Radu Mares (LLD (2006), LLM (1998)) is senior researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, in Lund, Sweden, specialised in the area of business and human rights. His work focuses on ways to strengthen the protection of human rights and good governance in the Global South. His preferred approach is to deliberately keep in the picture both governmental and private entities, so that the interaction between law, public policy and corporate practices can be studied, synergies captured, and their eff ectiveness enhanced. Dr. Mares has written on the justification of the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, on the relation between law and self-regulation, and on CSR in the mining industry and supply chain contexts.