Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours - Softcover

Deva, Surya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316648583 ISBN 13: 9781316648582

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

This book provides a sustained treatment of the politico-legal context and content of a proposed business and human rights treaty.

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About the Authors

Surya Deva is an Associate Professor at the School of Law of the City University of Hong Kong, and a Member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. Deva's primary research interests lie in business and human rights, corporate social responsibility, India-China constitutional law and sustainable development. He has published extensively in these areas, and has previously advised UN bodies, states, multinational corporations and civil society organisations on such matters. He is one of the founding Editors-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal.

David Bilchitz is a Professor of Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Law at the University of Johannesburg and Director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC). He is the Secretary General of the International Association of Constitutional Law and was elected as a member of the South African Young Academy of Science. He has written extensively in the field of business and human rights, and in 2013 he co-edited Human Rights Obligations of Business (Cambridge) with Surya Deva.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316648583
• ISBN 13: 9781316648582
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 540