Broschiertes Buch

A Guide to Human Rights Due Diligence for Lawyers

Beschreibung

"This book is intended to assist lawyers in navigating the developing area of human rights due diligence (HRDD). It explores the key components and requirements of the HRDD process, considers practical implementation of HRDD into corporate practices and policies, and treats key topics and cross-cutting issues related to HRDD. The 15 chapters in this book should therefore further lawyers' understanding of HRDD and allow them to advise their business clients in a manner that aids those clients with adoption and implementation of good practices to enhance their effectiveness in addressing their potential and actual human rights impacts"--

Autor

Dr. Corinne E. Lewis, a partner in the Brussels-based law firm Lex Justi, is an international human rights lawyer with a specialization in business and human rights. She provides legal advice to a range of clients based on her corporate law background as in-house counsel with a major multinational company and her 30 years of international human rights law experience, including work at the United Nations. She also has taught human rights law and public international law courses at US and UK universities. Having lived and worked in the United States and multiple countries in Asia and Europe, she brings an international perspective to her diverse projects. In addition to a PhD in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Dr. Lewis has an LLM (with honors) from Georgetown University and a JD from Indiana University. She is Immediate past co-chair of the ABA International Law Section's International Human Rights Committee.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Bar Association
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781639052028
• ISBN-10: 163905202X
• Artikelnr.: 68585177