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A List of Business and Human Rights Publications in the US Legal Academcy

I have often bemoaned that US legal academics are way behind in the field of business and human rights research. And, while that is still true, it looks like we are finally trying to close the gap. As anecdotal proof, I offer the following:

Each year the Corporate Practice Commentator annually polls law teachers for top ten articles in the field of corporate and securities law. As part of the process, Robert Thompson, editor for the periodical, provides business law faculty with a list of “corporate and securities articles published and indexed during the calendar year” (in the Current Index of Legal Periodicals). The Current list has close to 600 articles on it. Of those articles, we have eleven that explicitly discuss business and human rights issues. While that might not seem like a lot (and is probably not all of the BHR articles published – in fact if you know of some, please email me and I’ll include it), it is certainly more than I’ve seen in the past and as one small indicator of where we are, I find it heartening nonetheless.

In fact, it’s inspired me to do this each time the list comes out. Hopefully, the numbers will keep on rising.

Numbers rising

The list is below.

  • Bang, Naomi Jiyoung. Justice for victims of human trafficking and forced labor: why current theories of corporate liability do not work. 43 U. Mem. L. Rev. 1047-1096 (2013).
  • Bang, Naomi Jiyoung. Unmasking the charade of the global supply contract: a novel theory of corporate liability in human trafficking and forced labor cases. 35 Hous. J. Int’l L. 255-322 (2013).
  • Blitt, Robert C. Beyond Ruggie’s guiding principles on business and human rights: charting an embracive approach to corporate human rights compliance. 48 Tex. Int’l L.J. 33-62 (2012).
  • Hristova, Mirela V. The Alien Tort Statute: a vehicle for implementing the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights and promoting corporate social responsibility. 47 U.S.F. L. Rev. 89-108 (2012).
  • Martin, Jena. Business and human rights: what’s the board got to do with it? 2013 U. Ill. L. Rev. 959-999.
  • Narine, Marcia. From Kansas to the Congo: why naming and shaming corporations through the Dodd-Frank Act’s corporate governance disclosure won’t solve a human rights crisis. 25 Regent U. L. Rev. 351-401 (2012-2013).
  • Savelsberg, Joachim J. Writing human rights history—and social science encounters. (Reviewing Aryeh Neier, The International Human Rights Movement: A History.) 38 Law & Soc. Inquiry 512-537 (2013).
  • Shavers, Anna Williams. Human trafficking , the rule of law, and corporate social responsibility. 9 S.C. J. Int’l L. & Bus. 39-88 (2012).
  • Steinhardt, Ralph G. Kiobel and the multiple futures of corporate liability for human rights violations. 28 Md. J. Int’l L. 1-27 (2013).
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