From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social Liability : A Socio-Legal Study of Corporate Liability in Global Value Chains (Hardcover)

Part I: On the Limits of Law and a Limitless Globalised Market 1. Introduction 1.1. Meet Corporate Social Liability 1.2. Why Corporate Social Liability? 1.3. What Belongs to Corporate Social Liability? 1.4. The Book's Approach and Methods 1.5. Structure of the Book 2. Setting the Stage: Corporate Responsibility in Context 2.1. The Corporate Responsibility Debate in its Historical Context 2.2. Ideational Context: the Impact of the Washington Consensus 2.3 Economic Context: Centre, Semi-Periphery and Periphery of Global Value Chains 2.4. Organisational Context: Global Value Chain Governance 2.5. Social Context: CSR Standards for and within Global Value Chains 2.6. The Advent of International Standards 2.7. Many Shades of Voluntary Standards and Corporate Self-Regulation 2.8. The Rise and Fall of CSR Concluding Remarks on Part I Part II: The Upshots of Corporate Responsibility and Obstacles to Corporate Liability 3. National Law: the Shades of Publicness of Private Regulation 3.1. Corporate Law 3.2. Tort Law and Contract Law 3.3. Commercial Law 4. Post-national Law: Mandatory Disclosure, Environmental and Human Rights Due Diligence, and Supply Chain Liability 4.1. Supranational Law 4.2. International Law Concluding Remarks on Part II Part III: Corporate Liability in Theory and Practice: Recent Approaches and an Introduction to Corporate Social Liability 5. Corporate Liability in International Comparison 5.1. Legislative Landscape 5.2. Litigation Landscape 6. Analysis of Avenues for Corporate Social Liability in Global Value Chains 6.1. Common Criteria for Founding Liability: an Overview 6.2. Further Criteria for Founding Liability: Various Relevant Practices 6.3. Conceptual Prospects for Corporate Social Liability in Global Value Chains Concluding Remarks on Part III Part IV. Pitfalls and Future of Corporate Social Liability in Global Value Chains 7. Liability through Judicialisation, Legalisation, and Alternative Dispute Settlement 7.1. General Direct Liability 7.2. A(n) (Im)Possibility of Judicial Assertiveness: a General Duty of Care for Global Value Chains 7.3. Legalisation through Legislation: Liability Disciplines in Current French and Dutch Law 7.4. Transnational CSL Legalisation: Bangladesh Accord and Bangladesh Alliance 7.5. Alternative Dispute Resolution through International Investment Arbitration 7.6 Enforcing Corporate Social Liability ex ante 8. The Reality and Prospects of European and International Law on Corporate Liability in GVCs 8.1. European Law 8.2. International Business and Human Rights Framework: Guiding or Binding the Global Business? 9. On the Gap-filling CSL (and Its Gaps) 9.1. The Pitfalls of International Arbitration for Realising Transnational CSL 9.2. The Limits and Opportunities of the Interface of Domestic Private Law with Public International Law 9.3. Whither Corporate Social Liability? Conclusion: Where Do We Stand and Is There a Way Forward? 1. Where Do We stand? 2. The Way Forward 3. Final Concluding Remarks