Corporate Obligations under International Law

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Markos Karavias (, Senior Researcher, Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam)

Corporate Obligations under International Law

Markos Karavias (, Senior Researcher, Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam)

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Oxford University Press
05 May 2013

International environmental law; International human rights law; Responsibility of states & other entities; Company law

Series: Oxford Monographs in International Law

This book examines the extent to which international law places obligations directly on corporate entities. It is often argued that corporations are bound by, inter alia, the same human rights and environmental obligations that states have. This book examines the source of these supposed obligations in treaty law, international custom, and in internationalized contracts, to determine whether they really can be transposed to corporations so easily. The focus of the book is on the regulation by international law of private corporate conduct. It examines whether corporate obligations, namely obligations binding directly upon a corporation under positive international law, have indeed emerged, and if so, whether corporations may be systemically included in the predominantly state-centric framework of international law. It investigates the challenges facing international law as a result of the potential emergence of corporate obligations, and engages in a structural analysis of what corporate obligations under international human rights law might entail. Ultimately, it warns against conceptualizing corporations as both holders and potential violators of human rights, explaining why they are not automatically bound by the same obligations that are imposed on states.

By: Markos Karavias ( Senior Researcher Amsterdam Center for International Law University of Amsterdam)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199674381
ISBN 10: 0199674388
Series: Oxford Monographs in International Law
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 05 May 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1: The Concept of Corporate Obligations 2: Corporate Obligations under Treaty Law 3: Corporate Obligations under Customary Law 4: Corporate Obligations under Internationalized Contracts 5: The Structural Framework for Corporate Obligations Conclusion

Markos Karavias is a Senior Researcher at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam. He has previously acted as a Special Advisor to the Greek Minister for Environment, Energy and Climate Change. Markos Karavias hold a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

Reviews for Corporate Obligations under International Law

This book is the product of impressive legal research into both well-trodden and neglected areas of the international legal field, and its legal analysis is sophisticated... Corporation Obligations Under International Law undoubtedly makes a valuable and significant contribution to international legal research on how international law governs the conduct of corporations. * Cecily Rose, British Yearbook of International Law * Karavias should be credited for his rigorous analysis of the positive law in this field, where the waters have been sometimes muddied by activist lawyers. He should be praised for injecting an insight into the debate which has so far received fairly little attention: the problematique of the corporation as both a human rights obligor (addressee of human rights obligations) and a human rights holder (beneficiary of human rights). What the status of a rights-holder means for its status as a rights-obligor has, to my knowledge, never been tackled as lucidly as it is by Karavias. * Cedric Ryngaert, The Journal of World Investment & Trade *