Global Corporations and Sustainability

Edited by Barnali Choudhury, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Director of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, Canada and Honorary Professor, University College London, UK

‘This volume brings together leading scholars to examine the role of various laws in both enabling and disabling unsustainable corporate practices. The contributions in this edited book are a timely addition to collective ongoing thinking on addressing the root causes of corporate harms to people and the planet.’

• Contents1 Global corporations and sustainability: an introduction 1Barnali Choudhury2 Corporate governance and sustainability incentives 12Christopher M Bruner3 Corporate accountability, international law, and the climate crisis 33Carol Liao4 Modern slavery law and climate change law as potential disruptors: persisting corporate sustainability challenges in global value chains 58Peer Zumbansen5 Looking at clouds from both sides? – corporate sustainability and business human rights 83Lorraine Talbot6 Overcoming conflicts between investment protection and human rights through corporate sustainability due diligence? 106Markus Krajewski7 The inherent incompatibility of international investment law with a just green transition 126Anil Yilmaz Vastardis8 Investment law resistance to investor responsibility: mapping the challenges to overcome asymmetries 149Leonardo Vieira Arruda Achtschin9 Investment treaties and local communities: mapping the literature, thinking ahead 163 Nicolás M Perrone and Nicole Selamé 10 Historicising the recognition of the travelling corporation 180 Sundhya Pahuja 11 European Union’s global social role: between free trade agreements and corporate sustainability due diligence in global value chains 205 Madalina Andreea Stoican and Marianna Peroni 12 How to make corporations accountable for human rights abuses: perspectives from corporate law, international investment law, and human rights and business 220 Peter Muchlinski 13 The intertwining of corporate, international investment and public international law and their impacts on sustainability 250 Barnali Choudhury