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[Number] 7800 - 1 [Semester] 11542015 Spring [Description] This seminar explores the challenge of regulating the human rights conduct of multinational business in a world of nation states. The seminar will offer students the opportunity to examine the extent to which public international law places obligations on private actors to comply with human rights norms. The seminar focuses on the development of international regulatory systems and voluntary corporate initiatives to address the effects of multinational industry on human rights, the environment, and governance. Class discussions will consider the potential liability of multinational corporations for alleged violations of international human rights law, corporate complicity in alleged abuses through partnerships with repressive governments, the challenges and practical concerns of corporations operating abroad, counseling corporations engaged in social responsibility efforts, the responsibility of parent corporations for human rights violations by their foreign subsidiaries, and recent efforts to use domestic courts to enforce international legal standards on multinational corporations. RECOMMENDED: Business Organizations and International Law or International Human Rights. [Title] 
Human Rights & Corporations
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