Business, Human Rights and Natural Resource Governance

Ricardo Pereira is Reader in Transnational Law at Cardiff University, UK.Annalisa Savaresi is Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland, and Professor of Law at the University of Stirling, UK.Lee McConnell is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol, UK.

• 1. Business, Human Rights and Natural Resource Governance: An Introduction, Ricardo Pereira (Cardiff University, UK) and Lee McConnell (University of Bristol, UK)Part I: Legal Frameworks for Corporate Accountability in Transnational and Human Rights Law2. Public Security for Private Gain: Extractive Industries, State Security and the Business and Human Rights Treaty, Lee McConnell (University of Bristol, UK)3. Corporate Accountability for Climate Change: What Role for Business and Human Rights?, Marisa McVey (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Annalisa Savaresi (University of Eastern Finland, Finland and University of Stirling, UK)4. Driving the Energy Transition Responsibly? EU Legal Responses for Sustainable Mineral Supply Chains, Virginie Rouas (SOAS, University of London, UK) and Joshua Roberts (REScoop.EU, Belgium)5. The Role of Environmental and Human Rights Due Diligence in Advancing the EU's Strategic Energy Autonomy, Laura Sanaz Kaschny (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)6. Holding Corporations to Account: The Chimera of Customary International Law? Simon Baughen (Swansea University, UK)7. Transnational Corporate Liability for Environmental Human Rights Abuses in the Global South: Evaluating the Post-Brexit Landscape, Sol Meckievi (University of Cambridge, UK) and Maria-Augusta Paim (University of Nottingham, UK)Part II: Environmental Justice, Human Rights and Natural Resource Governance in the Global South8. Business and Human Rights in Armed Conflicts and the Competition for Natural Resources, Jelena Aparac and Yousuf Syed Khan (United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, Switzerland)9. Ecocide, Human Rights and the Prospects for Corporate Accountability before the International Criminal Court and Domestic Courts, Ricardo Pereira (Cardiff University, UK)10. Corporate Environmental Damage and the Private-Public Accountability Nexus: The Prospects of the Right to a Healthy Environment, Rosemary Mwanza (Stockholm University, Sweden)11. Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment: A Rights-Based Approach to Hold Pharmaceutical Companies Accountable, Lovleen Bhullar (Cambridge University, UK)12. Shale Gas Development, Energy Justice and Human Rights in the Global South, Karen Makuch (Imperial College London, UK) and Miriam Aczel (UC Berkeley, USA)13. The Social Licence to Operate in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry: A New Approach to Governance under the Petroleum Industry Act 2021, Eghosa Ekhator (University of Derby, UK)