Study Guide 2024-2027

By the end of the course students should be able to

• understand the legal basis of defining corporate social and environmental responsibility
• recognize the role of the international environmental law in monitoring multinational companies
• understand the preconditions of fulfilling the corporate social and environmental responsibility from the perspective of human rights

The course will familiarise the students with how international law can guide and monitor multinational companies. It will also look into the role of the human rights in fulfilling the corporate social and environmental responsibility.

The exam is written as take-home exam in Moodle ( OTMV1057 Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility)

Independent work

1. Muchlinski, Peter, Multinational Enterprises & the Law. Second edition. Oxford University Press 2007, chap. 1-3, 13-14 (pp 3-103 and 507-576).
2. Sjåfjell, Beate - Johnston, Andrew - Anker-Sørensen, Linn - Millon, David, Shareholder primacy: The main barrier to sustainable companies, pp. 79-147 in Sjåfjell, Beate - Richardson, Benjamin (ed.), Company Law and Sustainability: Legal Barriers and Opportunities. Cambridge University Press 2015.
3. Alvarez, José E., Are Corporations Subjects of International Law. Santa Clara Journal of International Law 9 (1) 2011, pp. 1-35.
4. Morgera, Elisa, Multinational corporations and international environmental law. Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law 2012, pp. 189–206.
5. Ong, David M., The impact of environmental law on corporate governance: international and comparative perspectives. European Journal of International Law 12 (4) 2001, pp. 685-726.
6. Ruggie, John Gerard, Business and Human Rights: The Evolving International Agenda. American Journal of International Law 101 (4) 2007, pp. 819–40.
7. Knox, John H. - Mares, Radu, The Ruggie Rules: Applying Human Rights Law to Corporations, pp. 51-83 in Mares, Radu (ed.), The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Foundations and Implementation. Martinus Nijhoff 2012.
8. McCorquodale, Robert - Simons, Penelope, Responsibility Beyond Borders: State Responsibility for Extraterritorial Violations by Corporations of International Human Rights Law. Modern Law Review 70 (4) 2007, pp. 598–625.

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Intermediate Studies

Law, Studies for Bachelor/Master of Laws Degree

Toni Selkälä

Law, Society and Power, Sustainable development, Changing Economic Regulation, Open University Studies