Bitter chocolate: beyond Nestlé v. Doe
In June, the judgment of the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) in NESTLE USA, INC. v. DOE ET AL diminished the impact of the US Alien Torts Act on US based corporations with international supply chains.…
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2021
Taking Fundamental Rights Obligations Seriously: Examining the Duties of Pharmaceutical Corporations to provide the COVID-19 Vaccine
Pharmaceutical corporations are centrally involved in the fight against Covid-19. In many cases, their research – often generously funded by states – has been of vital importance in the development of vaccines.…
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The Covid-19 pandemic continues to haunt the world
As I sit down to write a blog post covering my article in the European Journal of International Security, The Swedish Covid-19 strategy and voluntary compliance: Failed securitisation or constitutional security management?,…
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ILO C90: A roadmap on tackling violence and harassment throughout business operations and activities
Violence and harassment are pervasive throughout all countries, occupations and workplaces. According to the WHO, 1 in 3 women, around 736 million, are subjected to violence throughout their lifetime.…
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Transnational Environmental Law celebrates its tenth anniversary
Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) has celebrated its tenth birthday this year. For its Founding Editors-in-Chief, Thijs Etty and myself, this is a huge landmark as we proudly celebrate the success of TEL in establishing itself among the premier peer-reviewed publications for legal scholarship worldwide, and look back with gratitude at our growing community of contributors, reviewers, editors and, of course, our loyal readership which made it all possible.…
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Reconciling Biotechnology with Human Rights and the Protection of the Environment under International Law
International trade and investments concerning biotechnology is a means to global economic growth. Indeed, countries planting, and trading biotech crops gained U$186.1 in only a decade.…
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Making gratis greener
In 2020 Cambridge reviewed our policy of providing print copies to Editorial Board members of Cambridge-owned journals. In our Q&A with Ella Colvin , Director of Publishing – Journals, reflects on this project and our plans for a greener future.…
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Conversations with Authors: Gender and Party Discipline in African Legislatures
In this Conversation with Authors, we spoke with Amanda Clayton and Pär Zetterberg, the authors of the APSR open access article “Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from Africa’s Emerging Party Systems.”…
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Gender Representation and Equal Opportunity in Pakistan’s Corporate Boards of Directors
Women’s human rights continue to be restricted when it comes to equal access to leadership opportunities. Although there has been a global increase in women’s representation on corporate boardrooms, the number of women leading boardrooms across the globe still remains low.…
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Greater real-world impact, at a reduced environmental cost
Transforming how we operate at conferences, by significantly reducing the number of print copies, as we seek to reduce our global organisation’s carbon footprint.
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.7
Esteemed Readers,Dear friends,Allow me to exceptionally begin with a housekeeping issue. While preserving its cherished identity, the German Law Journal is expanding geographically.…
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CoP26 – Will it listen to those affected by global warming?
In the run up to CoP26, Tesla became the first electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer to have a market value of over $1 trillion.…
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Conversations with Authors: Send Back the Bloodstained Money
In this Conversation with Authors, we spoke with Dr. Emma Saunders-Hastings about her recent APSR article, “‘Send Back the Bloodstained Money’: Frederick Douglass on Tainted Gifts.”…
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In Defence of Newcastle Fans: Business, Human Rights and Amoral Capitalism
Newcastle United is now owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The UK media has almost universally condemned the takeover, and Newcastle fans support for the takeover, as paradigmatic examples of contemporary amorality, valuing football over human rights.…
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John Ruggie Tribute
Modest, humble, self-effacing, gentle, calm, good humored, and generous—and at the same time one of the most powerful intellects and impactful scholar-practitioners of his time: that was my experience of John Ruggie.…
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Conversations with Authors: The Politics of the Mundane
In this Conversation with Authors, we spoke with Dr. Roberto Carlos about his recent APSR article, “The Politics of the Mundane.”…
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Military diplomacy, agency, and change in International Politics
In our article for EJIS, “Communities of Practice, Impression Management, and Great Power Status: Military Observers in the Russo-Japanese War”, we build on a broader return to the study of military diplomacy in international relations.…
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Creating opportunities for transformative climate adaptation by farmers
Climate responses necessitate trade-offs, which may reinforce inequality. A gender and social equity approach is required to ensure that farmers with least resilience benefit from climate action through transformative climate adaptation.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.6
Dear Reader,It is my great pleasure to welcome you all back from your summer break and announce the publication of issue 6 of the German Law Journal.We…
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External Border Control Techniques in the EU as a Challenge to the Principle of Non-Refoulement
Over the past decade the EU has witnessed an increasing number of third-country nationals trying to reach its borders to find a safe haven there.…
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EU COVID-19 Certificates: A Critical Analysis
On 1 July 2021 the Regulation on the EU Digital COVID Certificate started to apply across the EU. It includes three categories of EU citizens, their family members and third- country nationals legally staying or residing in the EU: those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, those who have recovered from COVID-19 and those who can produce a negative test result.…
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Special Issue on “Business and Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe”
At the time when the world celebrates the 10th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), their uptake in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe remains extremely low.…
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A new BHR paradigm for multilateral development banks? Links between the UNGPs and the 2021 IFC/MIGA independent accountability mechanism (CAO) policy
Introduction The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) is the independent accountability mechanism for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), private sector arms of the World Bank Group (WBG).…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.5: Sexual Violence and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
Esteemed Readers,Only two decades into the 21st century, it seems premature to take stock of it already, unless it concerns an area where the tides have shifted as dramatically as with regards to the treatment of sexual violence in criminal law.…
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Cambridge Journals: 2020 in numbers
Looking back on 2020 with metrics and highlights from our Journals team.
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Sustainable Finance and the UNGPs: towards a grievance mechanism for victims of climate action
Sustainable finance is ordinarily considered a force for good aimed at mobilising financial support for climate action (SDG 13), among other environmental objectives.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.4
Dear reader,It is with great pleasure that I can announce the publication of issue 22(4) of the German Law Journal, which compromises a rich selection of papers on European law and theory.…
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Looking back to move forward: two decades of advancing company guidance on how to operate in complex environments
The increased importance of human rights due diligence (HRDD) in conflict affected areas or contexts that otherwise have a complex security situation was recently highlighted in the UN Working Group’s report Business, human rights and conflict-affected regions: towards heightened action UNWG 2020.…
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Numbers in an Emergency: The Many Roles of Indicators in the COVID-19 Crisis
The COVID-19 crisis has shaken the world. The authors of this blog post have edited a special issue of the International Journal on Law in Context (IJLC) that is specifically interested in the role of indicators in the COVID-19 crisis.…
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Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought
In this post, Kimberly Hutching and Patricia Owens reference their APSR article “Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution“.…
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Journal of African Law Special Issue on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa
The African Union (AU) declared 2019 the Year of Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa.…
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Windows on the World of International Books
Law and Social Inquiry is excited to announce a new feature—building a community of book authors who both write books and who also write essays on others’ books.…
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Business and Human Rights, Conflict and the Converging Legacies of Colonialism in the Palestinian Present
We cannot solve problems with the same mindset that created them. -Albert Einstein As I sit to write this post on business and human rights in relation to conflict, the Palestinian people face yet another cycle of violence in their struggle for the right to self-determination, bringing forward the academic challenge that comes with trying to detach one’s self from a personal connection to a topic.…
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Special Issue in Celebration of Peter Fitzpatrick and his Scholarship. International Journal of Law in Context
Peter Fitzpatrick (1941-2020) contributed immeasurably to the intellectual, organisational, and cultural life of postcolonial legal studies, critical legal studies, law and social theory and law and the humanities – fields he helped to consolidate.…
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COVID-19 and Soft Law
A year and some months into the COVID-19 -pandemic, it is trite to say that it has been an unprecedented challenge to many legal systems around the world.…
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The Small and the Vulnerable: Captive Companies in Conflict Zones
The most recent Report of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights centered around business and human rights in conflict zones.…
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Unsustainable: Investment Agreements and Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies
Michael Scott – the incompetent but somehow highly successful manager at the heart of the US comedy The Office – once claimed, “Truth be told, I think I thrive under a lack of accountability.”…
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Plus aucun enfant autochtone arraché : Pour en finir avec le colonialisme médical canadien
After my review of the original version of Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s book appeared in the journal, I thought a translation might encourage readers to take up the recent French translation.…
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Towards consolidating synergies between business and human rights and transitional justice
Last October, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights launched its report ‘Business, human rights and conflict-affected regions: towards heightened action’.…
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Pride amid Prejudice
In this post, Phillip Ayoub (PA), Douglas Page (DP), and Sam Whitt (SW) discuss their APSR article, “Pride amid Prejudice: The Influence of LGBT+ Activism in a Socially Conservative Society.”…
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The Working Group and the New Right to Coltan in International Human Rights Law
In July 2020, the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (Working Group) issued its report, Business, human rights and conflict-affected regions: towards heightened action (A/75/212), which purports to clarify “the practical steps and outlines practical measures that States and business enterprises should take to prevent and address business-related human rights abuse in conflict and post-conflict contexts, focusing on heightened human rights due diligence and access to remedy” (p.…
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5 Things to Know about Cryptocurrencies and their Exchanges
1. Crypto is the Data Money, Blockchain is the Accounting System It is wrong to think that Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are mere digital monies.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.3
Esteemed Friends of the German Law Journal,It’s Special Issue time again!Today we are excited to deliver to you another one-of-a-kind Special Issue of the German Law Journal .…
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A pluralistic approach to Gender Studies – an interview with Sara Doskow in Gender Studies, a Hot Topic from Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is partnering with GOBI Library Solutions on a series of blog posts to give our customer insights into our Hot Topics collections.…
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The Escazu Agreement: a game changer for business and human rights in the Americas?
On 22 April 2021, the Escazu Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean entered into force.…
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What are the hot topics for 2021? Our Management Editors share their views
We asked the Editors of five Cambridge Management journals to select recently published articles covering topics they felt will be hotly debated, discussed and researched in 2021.Settle…
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Making Rights Material
In evangelising businesses to follow the UN Guiding Principles, the business and human rights movement has weighed the advantages of wielding the ‘business case’ versus the moral case.…
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The European Super League should make all sports pause for thought
The proposed European Super League for football might have stalled at its inception but it is unlikely to be the last we hear of the idea, in this or any other sport.…
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What explains the politics of foreign direct investment (FDI) policy?
Since multinational enterprises (MNEs) orchestrate 80-90 percent of global trade through complex value chains, policies governing the conditions of these MNEs’ direct investment profoundly influence how countries integrate into transnational economic networks, the development trajectory of those economies, and the overall structure of the global economy.…
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Businesses, Remedy and Vaccine Trials: Reflections on the Business and Human Rights issues in the Irish Mother and Baby Homes Report
In this blog post we address a business and human rights issue that emerged from the recent report of Ireland’s Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: that of corporate complicity in unlicensed clinical trials carried out upon incarcerated children.…
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A new moment for climate governance: Can President Biden save the world from climate change?
Within hours of assuming office, President Joe Biden began taking steps to reverse his predecessor’s devastating policies on climate change. He returned the United States to the Paris Agreement, declared that his administration would cooperate with other countries to tackle the problem, and pledged that Americans would substantially cut their greenhouse gas pollution.…
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Government pledge fulfillment on immigration (“How Party Platforms on Immigration Become Policy”)
Do governing parties follow through on their campaign promises? Representative democracy requires that there are policy linkages between citizens and policies ultimately enacted by their governments.…
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On Balance: Costs and Benefits of School Shutdowns and Forming Covid-19 Policy under Uncertainty
Originally posted on the Society for Cost Benefit-Analysis On Balance blog In Volume 11 of The Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Thunström, Newbold, Finnoff, Ashworth, and Shogren presented their findings on the national benefits and costs of physical (or social) distancing measures.…
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Son preference and the fertility squeeze in India
Gender discrimination manifests in many ways, but in some countries, a long tradition of preference for sons over daughters has merged with recent demographic changes to produce unnaturally skewed sex ratios.…
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Legal Information Management – the winter 2020 issue – now published!
The winter issue of LIM has been published online and print copies of this issue will follow in due course! Reviewing the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 The issue begins with a feature article entitled ‘The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003: a Mere Coming of Age or Trusted Guardian of the Nation’s Treasures?’…
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MOR reacts: Explorations of resilience and the status of globalization in response to the Covid pandemic
The Management and Organization Review (MOR) Resilience Forum The Covid pandemic had almost instantaneously attracted attention to national, institutional, organizations and individual capabilities of resilience.…
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Turkey’s Withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention and Normalization of Male Violence
After decades of progressive reforms, since the early 2010s, Turkey has enacted a series of rollbacks on women’s rights and gender equality.…
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The confusion about socialism began with Karl Marx
There’s a great deal of confusion currently about the meaning of “socialism.” Is it no more than the Great Society on steroids, or a Bolshevik-style seizure of absolute power?…
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Experimental Collaborations at the Art-Anthropology Interface
Frederik Unseld is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His Ph.D. focuses on artists in the context of political and economic violence in Kisumu, western Kenya.…
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Gendered Securitisation: Trump’s and Putin’s Discursive Politics of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world by storm. At the time of writing this blog post, COVID-19 has brought a current death toll of almost 2.6 million people, and the number of infected surpassing 117 million people.…
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Minimal Secularism: Lessons for (and from) India
In a recent article for the APSR, Dr. Cécile Laborde (University of Oxford) examines the rise of the Hindu Nationalist BJP in India and its effects on the secular Indian state.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.2
Dear readers,We hope you are well. Welcome to yet another issue of the German Law Journal. Before I introduce the wonderful articles that fill this issue – rich in concepts and surprising findings – a brief reminder that our yearly call for Special Issues was just launched.…
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When the Police Break the Law
When police officers act (or appear to act) outside of the criminal law, community trust in the criminal justice system is put to the ultimate test.…
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What happens to fundraising when the neediest are also the most stigmatized?
In a recent article in the APSR, Katerina Linos, Laura Jákli, and Melissa Carlson partnered with a Greek NGO to conduct a cutting edge text message donation experiment.…
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Human Rights and Political Economy: A New Project at the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association
This blog post announces the formation of a new special interest group at the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association, Human Rights and Political Economy, sketching some core interests of the field and why they matter today. …
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It is Not Just One University: Reflections on the Recent Developments at Boğaziçi University
The autonomy of universities from politics and the executive branch may sometimes be taken for granted. For this reason, it is worth emphasizing why that autonomy is so important.…
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How can the Black Lives Matter riots be justified, whereas the “Stop the Steal” riot is not?
This post first appeared on Jonathan Havercroft’s blog in January 2021. During the middle of the Stop the Steal riot on Wednesday, some commentators on social media argued that this showed how those who defended Black Lives Matter riots in the summer were wrong.…
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Chasing the essence of essential use
This article introduces “The Concept of Essential Use: A Novel Approach to Regulating Chemicals in the European Union,” a new Open Access article in Transnational Environmental Law.…
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The policy questions we all now face are ripe for exploring our new Review
Launching the National Institute Economic Review at 62 years old! We are, of course, still living in the grip of a Covid pandemic that is neither well understood nor under control.…
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The ‘Conflict Minerals Regulation’ or the ‘Regulation on Responsible Sourcing of Minerals’: Evolving Purpose and Terminology
On 1 January 2021 the ‘Regulation (EU) 2017/821 laying down supply chain due diligence obligations for Union importers of tin, tantalum and tungsten, their ores, and gold (3TGs) originating from conflict-affected and high-risk areas’ (CAHRAs) came into force.…
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The effect of Covid-19 on Research4Life users
The shift to home-working for those in developing countries without access to low-cost and widely embedded domestic broadband networks, was potentially catastrophic.
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Boğaziçi University Protests and State Homophobia in Turkey
Boğaziçi University Protests and State Homophobia in Turkey
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Children’s fingers point to mothers’ income level and diseases that begin in the womb
Low-income mothers may feminize their children in the womb by adjusting their hormones, whereas high-income mothers may masculinize their children, a major study based on finger length, led by a Swansea University expert, has found.…
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Conversations with Authors: The #BlackLivesMatter Movement and Identity Frames
For this post, we asked Dr. Jamil Scott to speak with Dr. Tabitha Bonilla and Dr. Alvin Tillery about their APSR article, “Which Identity Frames Boost Support for and Mobilization in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement?…
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Fair Trade of Commodities: What’s in a Label
Recently, Nestle decided to end the relationship between its Kit Kat brand of chocolates and Fairtrade, a UK based labelling organisation.…
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Political Secularism and Muslim Integration in the West
In this post, Aala Abdelgadir and Vasili Fouka discuss their recent APSR article exploring the consequences of the headscarf ban in France.…
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A message from the German Law Journal editors for Vol. 22.1
Dear readers,It is our pleasure to bring to you this latest issue of the German Law Journal, (vol. 22 issue 1), the first of a new year that has already been highly eventful.…
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Housing Justice in pandemic times
While the pandemic’s effects on health, livelihoods and economy is dominating the public debate, its effect on housing has not gained much visibility.…
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Revisiting retrenchment: Tracing the decision to withdraw from East of Suez
Why did the United Kingdom withdraw from its large military bases in the Arabian Peninsula and Southeast Asia during the Cold War?…
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Human Rights Defenders Versus Big Corporations: A Promising Field of Inquiry
Environmental activist and indigenous leader Berta Cáceres – who in 2015 was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize – was assassinated in Honduras one year later, in 2016, for leading a protest against a hydroelectric power dam.…
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Demography and the Economics of Religion
In the last decade or two, the economics of religion has become a full-fledged subfield in economics. Economists (and social scientists of all stripes) who study religion are interested in the many ways religion affects decision-making via politics, education, persecution, technology diffusion, violence, and much more.…
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Saving and restoring tropical forests has enormous value for the planet and the economy
The protection of tropical forests globally is indispensable for significantly increasing climate ambition in line with Paris Agreement goals as illustrated by a tremendous return on climate investment, according to our new article in the journal Global Sustainability.…
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Conversations with Authors: Group Specific Measures and Novel Designs to Mitigate Gender-Based Violence in India
Once again, a brutal rape case that occurred in India in September 2020 has captured headlines and stunned the world. In Hathra, Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit (an oppressed caste), woman was gang-raped by several dominant caste men; she succumbed to her injuries two weeks after the attack.…
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Does Foreign Electoral Interference Violate International Law?
Interference in democratic decision-making processes carried out by outside powers is anything but a novel phenomenon. Especially during the period of the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union almost routinely meddled with elections in foreign countries, with varying degrees of subversion and coercion.…
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The China Quarterly at 60: A Special Anniversary Issue
Founded in 1960, The China Quarterly is on the eve of entering its seventh decade of publishing world-class research on China.…
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Rapport Management – an alternative to Unconscious Bias Training
In recent years, numerous organisations have been implementing unconscious bias training, with the aim of enhancing diversity and inclusion. This has become particularly important in view of the Black Lives Matter movement.…
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Is physical distancing worth it, given its tremendous costs to the economy?
The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was declared a pandemic by the WHO in March 2020. Around this time, many states and local governments in the United States declared states of emergencies and adopted policies aimed at reducing the frequency of physical contacts between people—social or physical distancing measures—in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus.…
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Three Things You Can do to Make Your Data Tables More Visual
Tables are different from graphs and charts. Charts are meant to present a quick, visual representation of data. But tables are drill-downs, an outlay of all the data down to their exact values or estimates.…
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Regulating the revolving door
In July 2016, European citizens were told that Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission, was leaving office to join the famous American investment bank, Goldman Sachs.…
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