Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities on a global scale through the rapid pace of technological change and globalisation. But such corporations have to date been largely overlooked in the field of business and human rights. Treatment of such corporations has typically been in the context of supply chain studies, as subsidiaries of corporations from economically developed Western states. This book takes a radically different approach. It aims to investigate the conditions under which the European Union and its Member States regulate and remedy human rights violations by corporations from emerging and developing states. Stemming from the hypothesis that the EU intends to play a central role, Aleydis Nissen explores how the EU and its Member States attempt to ensure that EU-based businesses are not undercut by emerging competition, drawing on global examples to illustrate this developing phenomenon.

A human rights study of businesses from emerging and developing countries acting as competitors to European Union-based businesses.

About the Author
Aleydis Nissen is a researcher at Leiden University and the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). She received the 2020 Best Thesis Prize of the European Group of Public Law, the 2021 Thesis Prize of the Strasbourg-based Fondation Rene Cassin International Institute of Human Rights and the Andres Bello (J.B. Scott) Prize of the Geneva-based Institute of International Law.


Book Information
ISBN 9781009284301
Author Aleydis Nissen
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 670g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 29mm