Why does India deserve more attention?
India’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem is recognised as one of the largest in the world, with global integration in terms of technology, financing, human capital, and administration.…
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2019
Understanding the Complexity of Environmental Law
Environmental goals are pursued in increasingly complex legal ways that defy our usual approaches to teaching and researching environmental law in siloes.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 20.8
Dear Readers, It is my pleasure to announce the publication of the last issue of the German Law Journal’s 20th anniversary year.…
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‘Enemies of the people’: Populism and the politics of (in)security
Referencing his FirstView article for the European Journal of International Security (EJIS), Thorsten Wojczewski examines populism in contemporary politics and international relations.…
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Academics at the Forum: Yes, it Still Matters; No, it’s Not Any Better, Part 2
In my last post, I discussed the number of academics at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, and the lack of improvement in representation over the past three years.…
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Academics at the Forum: Yes, it Still Matters; No, it’s Not Any Better, Part 1
I was asked by someone associated with the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights’ organization if I would again do my count of academics and women academics because they thought it was interesting and important.…
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Secrecy’s subjects: special operators in the US Shadow War
Referencing her article in the latest issue of the European Journal of International Security (EJIS), Elspeth Van Veeren blogs on the power of secrecy in security discourses.…
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Symposium on Institutional Innovations in the Enforcement of EU Law and Policies
Much is being said, lately, regarding the effectiveness of EU policies, often arguing that their implementation is too poor or uneven throughout the Union.…
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Reconceptualizing the politics of knowledge authority in post-/conflict interventions: From a peacebuilding field to transnational fields of interventionary objects
Based on her FirstView article in the European Journal of International Security (EJIS), Anna Danielsson reconceptualises the politics of knowledge authority in post/conflict interventions.…
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The link between genes, psychological traits, and political engagement
In this post, Aaron C. Weinschenk expands on his and his co-authors’ article in a recent issue of Politics and the Life Sciences.…
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150 years of humanitarian reflection: A momentous anniversary
Many know the International Review of the Red Cross as an academic publication dedicated to issues of international humanitarian law, policy and action produced by the ICRC and published by Cambridge University Press.,…
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Did Conservatives Transform State Education Policy?
2020 Democratic presidential candidates are attacking charter schools, education vouchers, and test-score-based teacher accountability schemes, even backtracking on their past support.…
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Technologies of indecision and ambiguity
Referencing his article in the latest issue of the European Journal of International Security (EIS), Rune Saugmann writes on ‘military techno-vision’.…
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Inside the DMZ: Exploring Militarized Masculinities Through Visual Autoethnography
Referencing his article in the latest issue of the European Journal of International Security, Professor Roland Bleiker examines how everyday aesthetic sensibilities can open up new ways of thinking about security dilemmas.…
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Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy in History
This special issue of Business History Review uses medieval, 19th century and 20th century examples to show that the union of entrepreneurship and philanthropy has a long history.
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Focus on Neurodiversity: How can employment practices be transformed to be inclusive for all individuals?
The last decade has seen a remarkable opening of new job opportunities for people who are neurodiverse – a subset of the general population that historically has experienced un- and underemployment rates as high as 85–90%.…
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The ‘ideal’ diplomat: the role of Irish women at the League of Nations and United Nations, 1923-76
Using the League of Nations and United Nations as case studies, my article identifies the women involved in Irish diplomacy and the roles they undertook between 1923 and 1976.
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From ‘nice girls’ to ‘cool girls’: Teenage sexuality in mid-twentieth-century England
Drawing upon original oral histories and reflective testimonies collected as part of the Mass Observation Project, my article explores the ways in which teenage girls’ friendship groups and extended network of classmates and peers shaped their sexual lives.
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The challenges of openness, transparency and impact in a data-driven world
Data science is a broad, interdisciplinary field being that in the UK is being shaped by the activities of the Turing Institute.…
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Is Extinction Rebellion the answer to our prayers?
Throngs of young (and not so young) people refusing to pretend that the human race is not in the most serious crisis it has ever faced.…
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How do China-US rivalry and de-globalization affect Chinese business?
The international context of business has shifted markedly in recent years, with globalization under US hegemony giving way to the twin forces of de-globalization and a growing Sino-American rivalry.…
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Crowdfunding an Open Access book
At Cambridge, we’re committed to creating Open Access publications and we’re keen to experiment and explore all options for making this happen.…
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Quarterly Highlight: The Lengthy Journey towards a Treaty on Business & Human Rights
This post is part of the symposium that the BHRJ Blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
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Bank Identity: Banks, ID Cards, and the Emergence of a Financial Identification Society in Sweden
Today almost every adult in Sweden has a digital BankID, issued by banks for the purpose of ensuring safe payments. However, a BankID is also a pre¬requisite for contacts with for example municipal schools, and the public healthcare system.…
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The deeper meaning of the Ukrainian scandal
Before we know if the impeachment attempt of President Trump will go anywhere, the American voters seem to face the choice of two presidential hopefuls, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, both accused of exercising undue influence over the judiciary in another country, Ukraine.…
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Product co-creation: together we can build something wonderful
Co-creation is not a new idea. For years companies have been seeking advice from their customers about how they can improve their products and services, either by asking directly, by quietly listening, or by learning from data.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 20.7
Dear Friends of the German Law Journal! As we have mentioned more often than you probably like to hear, 2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of the German Law Journal (yes, the twentieth anniversary, did we mention that?),…
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Revised Draft: Did States Get a Passing Grade?
This post is part of the symposium that the BHRJ Blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
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Law and style
In legal discourse, the term ‘style’ is used in a bewildering variety of senses and contexts, mundane and refined, practical and theoretical.…
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China, Europe and the Great Divergence: A Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850
When did Europe first forge ahead of China in terms of productivity and living standards? European economic historians have traditionally assumed that this divergence had already occurred by the sixteenth century or perhaps even earlier.…
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More Policies. More Progress. More Problems.
From the operation of a functioning health care system and the protection of the environment to the provision of jobs, social benefits and decent housing – citizens demand a lot from their elected governments.…
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Reconceptualizing and Redirecting Research on Guanxi
Guanxi is one of the most popular topics in Chinese and Western scholarship concerning social ties in China. However, several problems in research on guanxi persist, and multiple debates are still ongoing without much consensus in sight.…
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Another year of peer review at Cambridge University Press…
Improvements, Iterations, and Infrastructure Cambridge University Press has a set of objectives in the peer review space . . . with several question marks still: Objectives: Increase transparency Support reviewer recognition Offer more training resources for reviewers Improve internal processes to make peer review more efficient Questions: What are the evolving challenges to peer review and opportunities in evolving forms of scholarly communication for peer review and how do we respond to them?…
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A Progressing Approach on Conflict-Affected Settings and Situations of Occupation in the Revised Draft of the Legally Binding Instrument, More Needed
This post is part of the symposium that the BHRJ Blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
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A new draft Business and Human Rights treaty and a promising direction of travel
This post is part of the symposium that the BHRJ Blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
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Five ways the new draft treaty on business and human rights can be strengthened
In the second of a two-part article, Doug Cassel outlines the five areas that need addressing to deliver on the promise of the new draft treaty.…
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Legal liability for business human rights abuses under the revised draft of a treaty on business and human rights
This post is part of the symposium that the BHRJ Blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
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Ecuador’s Revised Draft Treaty: Getting Down to Business
In the first of a two-part article, Doug Cassel raises certain arguments circling around the significant improvements made in the new draft.…
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The 2019 Draft of the Business and Human Rights Treaty: Nothing left to improve?
“This post is part of the symposium that the BHRJ Blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
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The Revised Draft Business and Human Rights Treaty: Taking Women’s Experiences and Women’s Human Rights Seriously
The revised draft of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group’s business and human rights treaty released on July 16, 2019 is a significant improvement on the Zero Draft in terms of its structure, coherence, and its application to all business activity, not simply transnational.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 20.6
Dear readers, We are back after a wonderful summer break – and hope you enjoyed yours. And we are back with a bang!…
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Slow Progress in Times of Dynamic Change? Feminist Perspectives on the Road to the Binding Treaty
This post is part of the symposium that the BHRJ Blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
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Doing Qualitative Research in Emerging Markets
This special issue aims to advance the quality, diversity and understanding of qualitative research methods in management in the context of emerging markets (EMs).…
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Parasitological research in the molecular age
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is ‘Parasitological research in the molecular age‘ by Christian Selbach, Fátima Jorge, Eddy Dowle & Robert Poulin Technological developments often provide new tools for scientific advances.…
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Draft Treaty on business and human rights: a digital environment perspective
On July 16, 2019, the UN open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (the “Working Group”) published a revised draft of a binding treaty on business and human rights.…
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Can Business Make Us More Fully Ourselves?
Imagine a business culture that could exist—but doesn’t (at least, not yet). If you could design that culture, what would it look like?…
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Civic Lessons: Policing, Citizenship and Equality
The killing of Solomon Tekah, an 18 year-old Ethiopian-Israeli, shot to death by a police officer, led to mass demonstrations. Young Israelis of Ethiopian descent voiced their frustrations and anger with what they described as racism and police brutality.…
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A step in the right direction: corporate responsibility under the 2019 revised draft. Part II: the recognition of corporate violations and its implications
This post is part one of the first in a symposium that the BHRJ blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
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Diversity and creativity in cross-national teams
Due to globalization, organizations are increasingly operating in multicultural and multinational contexts. In 21st century, the metaphor of a ‘flat world’ comprehensively represents the contemporary business world.…
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How Policy Packaging can increase public support for costly policies
Around the world, policy-makers are confronted with various challenges originating from climate change, urbanisation, population growth, as well as technological and economic change.…
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A step in the right direction: corporate responsibility under the 2019 revised draft. Part I: beyond transnational conduct and corporations by means of non-reductionist approaches
This post is part one of the first in a symposium that the BHRJ blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
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Education is key in fostering trade opportunities for women
Women's empowerment is now an established feature of the debate at the WTO. Over the years, the WTO has worked to further strengthen the role of trade in empowering women; to assess the impact of international trade on women's economic development; to make trade as inclusive as possible and thus to contribute to the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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Codes of ethics: An unstoppable tendency
Corporate codes have increased extensively over the last three decades, significantly, as a response to the legal requirements that were developed in response to financial and business scandals.…
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Developing a National Action Plan on a Polycentric Governance System: Case of Indonesia
Indonesia is the only country in Southeast Asia to be a member of the G20 and, in the first quarter of 2019, was recorded as having the third-largest economic growth among the G20 countries, which was 5.07 percent.…
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The Ethics of Sweatshops and the Dangers of Theoretical Oversimplification
It is sometimes right to let others do wrong. Sweatshops provide a potential example of particular ethical significance. The argument for this, in brief, runs as follows.…
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Retirement brings sweeter dreams
Might work be interrupting a good night’s sleep? Modern societies are chronically sleep deprived. Many adults are sleeping less than the recommended 7–8 hours, in part due to the pressures of work.…
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Before Political Theory
In our article, we argue that a major fault line in early-modern Britain was the propriety of engaging in abstract speculation on the political order, and that this constituted a particular context for debate over theory.
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New book highlights key outcomes from WTO Ministerial Conferences
A new book containing all the key results from WTO Ministerial Conferences since the organization was established in 1995 was unveiled at the WTO on 18 July. Spanning 11 Ministerial Conferences held between 1996 and 2017, “WTO Ministerial Conferences: Key Outcomes” includes Ministerial Decisions and Declarations as well as Conference Chairpersons’ statements.
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Bringing social divides and organization back into the discussion of populism: the Justice and Development Party in Turkey
Bringing social divides and organization back into the discussion of populism: the Justice and Development Party in Turkey.
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The UK’s Closure of Investigations into Alleged Torture and Ill-Treatment in Iraq
The way a state responds to alleged war crimes and human rights violations says much about its approach to international law, transparency, and redress for victims.…
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How agents change institutions: Coalitional dynamics and the reform of commercial training in Switzerland
While historical institutionalism gives priority to structure over agency, institutions have never developed and operated without the intervention of interested groups.[1]…
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May the force be with you: Antecedents and consequences of organizational resilience
Organizations have to strive in an uncertain and challenging environment, that is a fact. Then, why some organizations not only survive but emerge stronger, whereas others do not?…
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How to Write A Great Peer Review
Reviewers often ask the editorial team at Law & Social Inquiry for tips on writing peer reviews. Here are what I see as four key attributes of reviewer reports that are most valuable to editors and authors.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 20.5
Dear readers, We bring you best wishes and some light summer reading from the HQ of the German Law Journal. Our latest issue touches on several topical aspects of European Union Law – a field that has begun to entail to many diverse policy areas and disciplinary traditions that it is perhaps meaningless to still pretend some level of overall coherence.…
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The People’s Right to Know and State Secrecy
Transparency is the mantra of democratic governance. It is cherished as a tool for curbing corruption and abuses of power, and achieving political accountability.…
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The UN Guiding Principles Should Apply to Low Waged Workers in the United States: Case of App-Based Drivers
The New York Times headline, Why Are Taxi Drivers in New York Killing Themselves? should sound human rights alarms. Drivers who committed suicide shared with their families that they had a difficult time making a living as Uber began to dominate the ride-hailing, app-based taxi industry.…
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Making Sense of Drug Scarcity in the Cuban Revolution
What do we mean when we talk about “scarcity”? Is it an absolute or relative condition? Observers of the 1959 Cuban Revolution have long relied on the category of scarcity to advance a variety of arguments.…
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Technological advancement and job automation – What are employees’ perceptions of our future workplace?
Recently there has been growing attention internationally around potential job automation, and the future of work. This is because of advances in technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and algorithms etc.…
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Facing Uncertainty: An entrepreneurial view of the future?
‘No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.’ (Voltaire) ‘Uncertainty is the normal state.’ (Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) Voltaire’s comment reflects a view apparently held by many others.…
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Are shareholders the new champions of climate justice?
For several decades, individuals and communities affected by climate change – as well as the lawyers, advocates and civil society organizations who represent them – have been using litigation as a strategic tool to hold corporations accountable for climate change-related human rights harms.…
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A Special Issue of the IJLIC on Law, Liberty and Technology―Criminal Justice in the Context of Smart Machines
The criminal justice system has been something of a test-bed for new technologies―witness, for example, the use of CCTV surveillance and DNA profiling technologies.…
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Managing International Crises Together?
If we look at the world around us, attempts by states to somehow and at certain moments manage international crises together abound.…
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‘We should/could ensure rights-holders affected by our clients’ activities have greater access to remedy, but we won’t let them know about it’: The Dutch Banking Sector Agreement’s Discussion Paper on Enabling Remediation
On 24 May 2019, the Dutch Banking Sector Agreement (DBA) published a discussion paper on enabling remediation, which explores the role and responsibility of banks with regard to remedying human rights impacts.…
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“50/50” Gender Equality and the Persistence of Bridewealth in Democratic South Africa
Michael Yarbrough is Assistant Professor, Law and Society Major, Department of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY).…
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How to manage a crisis in Iran?
Discussions of Iran’s modern history are discussion about crisis. Since the outset of 20th century up until today, Iran went through two revolutions, two wars, successful and failed coups, international sanctions, and profound cultural and social transformations.…
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Celebrating Law & Social Inquiry
Cambridge University Press was proud to chair a session at this year’s Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Washington DC to commemorate the journal Law & Social Inquiry’s move to publication with Cambridge in 2019.…
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Will Innovations Disrupt Existing Regulatory Frameworks?
In May 2013, Defense Distributed, an online open-source organisation, released a plan called ‘The Liberator’ on the Internet. The plan allowed the manufacturing of a 3D-printable, single-shot handgun.…
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Why Are We Running Out of Time? A Business History Perspective on the Environmental Crisis
This special issue in Business History Review on Business and the Environment seeks to promote new approaches in business history designed to explore of the role of business in both creating and addressing the mounting environmental crisis that has become apparent over the last half century.
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Towards a case for legally recognising and labelling ‘forced-to-penetrate’ cases as rape
Section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 defines rape as the non-consensual and intentional penile penetration of the victim’s vagina, anus, or mouth by the perpetrator, and that the perpetrator does not have a reasonable belief in the victim’s consent.…
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It Could Happen to You: How Perceptions of Personal Risk Shape Support for Social Welfare Policy in the American States
Social welfare policies are among the most salient and potentially controversial policies today. In virtually all western democracies, public support for the social safety net has changed significantly over time.…
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2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominees: Cheryl N. Collier and Tracey Raney
Interview with 2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Cheryl N. Collier and Tracey Raney; “Canada’s Member-to-Member Code of Conduct on Sexual Harassment in the House of Commons: Progress or Regress?”…
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2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominee: Melanee Thomas
Interview with 2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominee Melanee Thomas; “In Crisis or Decline? Selecting Women to Lead Provincial Parties in Government.”…
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2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominee: Matt Wilder
Interview with 2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominee Matt Wilder; “Debating Basic Income: Distributive Justice and the Normative-Technical Nexus.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 51 (2).…
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The Case of the Catalans Consider’d
The title “The Case of the Catalans Consider’d” was the name used by European chancellors early in the 18th century to refer to the debates and arrangements regarding the political destiny of the Principality of Catalonia in the context of the Peace of Utrecht (1712-1714), the agreement that ended the War of the Spanish Succession.…
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Making a difference: Doing leadership research that matters
Most of the research that is currently in ‘leading’ journals ignores the really important issues that confront our world. As an example, consider what is probably the most important problem now facing our species.…
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#ustoo: How can we best make a difference?
Jenn and I sat across from each other at a wooden table in a light filled café in central Oklahoma, discussing yet another incidence of sexual assault on a college campus.…
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Crisis, unemployment, and mobilisations
Author Laurent Bernhard introduces the recent title Debating Unemployment Policy: Political Communication and the Labour Market in Western Europe. In autumn 2008, the world has experienced a major financial and economic crisis: the Great Recession.…
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Bargaining over maternity pay
The importance of maternity and childcare entitlements has been widely acknowledged by both scholars and policy-makers: evidence shows that well paid, non-transferable and flexible provisions with respect to maternity and child care-giving mitigate the “baby penalty” women face in the labour market and help in reducing gender inequalities both in the household and at the workplace.…
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The politics of Islamic family law reform
In particular since the 2000s, family laws – the laws regulating marriage, divorce, custody, polygyny and guardianship among other matters – have been reformed across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).…
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Physical harm warning urges patients to use medicine correctly
Patients warned about the personal health risks of misusing medicine were almost twice as likely to heed the advice and take and it correctly, a new study has found.…
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The Effect on Business: The Reality of the Nevsun Case in Canada
As the business and human rights discourse gains space in courts and transnational litigation in home countries rise to prominence, a question that arises is: what does this mean for businesses and their investors?…
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The Price of Science
In the last two decades, leading business schools in China have established U.S.-style tenure systems to reward scholars who can publish in respectable international journals according to a journal list. A more “progressive” practice of many business schools is to attach a price tag to journals according to their ranking in the journal list and offer monetary rewards to scholars who publish in these journals. Science, then, has a price.
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The Human Rights Obligations of International Organisations towards their Civilian Personnel
This analysis starts from the assumption, accepted by most scholars, that International Organisations (IOs) are bearers of at least some human rights (HRs) obligations, namely those stemming from jus cogens and, to some extent, international customary law.[1]…
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Business and Human Rights in the Republic of Korea and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
The National Human Rights Commission in the Republic of Korea recommended that the Korean government adopt a new National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights as part of its efforts to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Korea on July 2016.[1]…
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Jurisdiction, access to remedy in business and human rights cases and the corporate structure: A tale of two cases.
This note introduces two cases, both concerned with liability under a duty of care of parent companies, the obligation of ‘due diligence’ in supply chain operations and the obstacles presented by the corporate structure.…
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Jabir et al vs. KiK: Do EU companies have an extraterritorial duty towards suppliers in global production chains?
Multinational companies not only maintain subsidiaries in multiple jurisdictions but have increasingly outsourced production to independent suppliers. Industrial disasters like the Ali Enterprises (AE) factory fire in Karachi, Pakistan, or the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, are only the most extreme examples of the results of precarious working conditions in global supply chains.…
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Clarifying the limits of extraterritorial jurisdiction of English courts to try business-related human rights violations
On 10 April 2019, the UK Supreme Court passed a landmark decision in Vedanta v Lungowe and allowed claims alleging severe environmental pollution in Zambia to be tried in England.…
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Vedanta v Lungowe: An irreconcilable regulatory overreach?
Vedanta was an appeal of the Court of Appeal’s decision in respect of the liability of a UK parent company for the activities of its Zambian subsidiary.…
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Ghosts and Judges: The Self as a Historical Subject
Lawyers love a good ghost story. In his opinion in a famous case involving a dispute between a local council and a firm of contractors, British Law Lord Cyrill Radcliffe mused that during the proceedings, the parties had become “so far disembodied spirits that their actual persons should be allowed to rest in peace.”…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 20.4
Dear Readers, It is with great pleasure that I announce the publication of vol 20(4) of the German Law Journal and our new call for special issue proposals for volumes 21 (2020) and 22 (2021).…
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