Social Sciences

The Working Group and the New Right to Coltan in International Human Rights Law

Brian Ganson | 10 May 2021

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.…

5 Things to Know about Cryptocurrencies and their Exchanges

Koray Caliskan, The New School | 7 May 2021

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.…

GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.3

Jen Malat |

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 .…

A pluralistic approach to Gender Studies – an interview with Sara Doskow in Gender Studies, a Hot Topic from Cambridge University Press

Marianela Machado | 29 Apr 2021

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.…

The Escazu Agreement: a game changer for business and human rights in the Americas?

Humberto Cantú Rivera | 28 Apr 2021

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.…

Making Rights Material

Joanne Bauer | 23 Apr 2021

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.…

The European Super League should make all sports pause for thought

Stephen Mumford | 22 Apr 2021

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.…

Businesses, Remedy and Vaccine Trials: Reflections on the Business and Human Rights issues in the Irish Mother and Baby Homes Report

Ciarán O'Kelly, Ciara Hackett, Samantha Hopkins and Clare Patton | 14 Apr 2021

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.…

A new moment for climate governance: Can President Biden save the world from climate change?

Paul G. Harris | 13 Apr 2021

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.…

What are the hot topics for 2021? Our Management Editors share their views

Katie Laker | 26 Apr 2021

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…

Antiracism Today

Teun A. van Dijk | 22 Apr 2021

Until a few years ago, news about police officers in the USA killing a black man was hardly news. Thanks to increasing resistance from the black community, and especially by the Black Lives Matter movement, such killings have become world news, as has been the death of George Floyd and the court case against his assassin.…

What explains the politics of foreign direct investment (FDI) policy?

Sarah Bauerle Danzman | 20 Apr 2021

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.…