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This project aims to undertake research on the role law, in particular corporate law, can play in promoting corporate social responsibility (CSR). Corporate regulatory regimes in many jurisdictions have traditionally had an economic focus, treating environmental and social issues as ‘outsiders’ to be addressed in other regulatory instruments. Increasingly, however, a number of jurisdictions have begun to promote CSR via their corporate laws though measures such as sustainability reporting requirements and new directors’ duties. This project will provide research into these new developments, analysing some of the significant initiatives to integrate the principles of sustainable development into corporate regulatory regimes at both the national and international level.
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During the course of this year we will be concentrating our research efforts on identify proposed and existing corporate law reform initiatives relating to CSR at both the domestic and international level. The outcomes of this research will feed into a number of CISDL publications including a new book for LexisNexis on CSR from a legal perspective. To coincide with the launch of the book in 2007, we will be hosting a legal workshop to present the findings of our research and to hear from other legal experts with research interests in this area. |
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| 1.1 Team Members | |||||||||
| Michael Kerr, Lead Counsel | |||||||||
| Prof. Richard Janda, Senior Research Fellow | |||||||||
| Osman Aboubakr, Legal Research Fellow | |||||||||
| Henry Lovat, Legal Research Fellow | |||||||||
| Hari Suthan, Associate Fellow | |||||||||
| Rachel Bendayan, Associate Fellow | |||||||||
| Roman Picherack, Member of Research Group | |||||||||
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| 1.4 Publications | |||||||||
M. Kerr and M.C. Cordonier Segger, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility: International Strategies and Regimes’ in M.C. Cordonier Segger and Justice C.G. Weeramantry, eds., Sustainable Justice: Reconciling Economic, Social and Environmental Law (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2005). |
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| 1.5 Recommended Resources and Links | |||||||||
| The Business and Sustainable Development Programme, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) | |||||||||
| Business and Sustainable Development | |||||||||
| The Corporate Responsibility Coalition | |||||||||
| The Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise | |||||||||
| The CSR Intitiative of the John F Kennedy School of Government(Harvard University) | |||||||||
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CISDL LEGAL PROGRAMMES |
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