Syllabus/achievement requirements

Required reading

Books, Chapters, Journal articles

Books

Articles and extraits from books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in a compilation of texts (kompendium) which can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore at the Law Faculty (Domus Nova building).

• *Darrow, Mac, 'World Bank and International Monetary Fund', Encyclopedia of Human Rights, Dec 2009 (9pp.) vol. 5, pp. 373-381

• Deva, Surya. Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations. Humanizing Business. London: Routledge, 2012. (240 pp.)

• Kinley, David. Civilising globalisation. Human rights and the global economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Chs 4 (Commerce and human rights), pp. 145-203. (68 pp).

• *Langford, Malcolm 'Cosmopolitan Competition: The Case of International Investment', in Katja Aas and Cecilia Bailliet, Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents (London: Routledge, 2011). pp. 178¨C204 (26pp.)
• *Mestad, Ola, ¡°Attribution of responsibility to listed companies¡± in Gro Nystuen, Andreas F?llesdal and Ola Mestad (eds). Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 79-106. (27 pp.)

• *Sullivan, Rory and Nicolas Hachez, ¡°Human Rights Norms for Business: The Missing Piece of the Ruggie Jigjaw ¨C the Case of Institutional Investors¡± in Radu Mares (ed). The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Right. Leiden: Nijhoff, 2012. Pp. 217-145. (28 pp.)

Articles

• The journal articles below are available in fulltext here: http://www.ub.uio.no/english/. Choose E-journals.
• The books below are available in fulltext in BIBSYS Ask. Choose the e-version of the book and open the link.
• The UN-reports below are available online (open links).

• Gillies, Alexandra, ¡®Reputational Concerns and the Emergence of Oil Sector Transparency as an International Norm¡®, in International Studies Quarterly, Vol.54,No.1, pp. 103¨C126 (23pp.).(journal)
• Joseph, Sarah. Blame it on the WTO? A Human Rights Critique. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Chs. 1, 2, 4, 8, 9. (145 pp) (book)
• Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations ¡°Protect, Respect and Remedy¡± Framework. March 21, 2011. UN Human Rights Council. A/HRC/17/31. (27 pp.) (UN-document)

• Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie, Addendum: States Obligations to Provide Access to Remedy for Human Rights Abuses by Third Parties, including Business: an Overview of International and Regional Provisions, Commentary and Decisions, 15 May 2009, UN Doc. A/HRC/11/13/Add. 1. (37 pp.)( UN document)

• Scruggs, Lyle, Shareen Hertel, Samuel J. Best, & Christopher Jeffords ¡°Information, Choice and Political Consumption: Human Rights in the Checkout Lane¡± in Human Rights Quarterly Vol 33, No 4, 2012 (pp1092-1121) (journal)

• Narula, Smita, ¡°International Financial Institutions, Transnational Corporations and Duties of States¡±, in Malcolm Langford, Martin Scheinin, Wouter Vandenhole and Willem van Genugten (eds.). Global Justice, State Duties: The Extra-Territorial Scope of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (50pp)http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1922873

Total number of pages: 687.

Study material (cases, documents etc. for discussion, to be added)

• Practices of corporations
• Studies of human rights organizations (e.g. Institute of Human Rights and Business, Human Rights and Business Dilemma Forum; Amnesty International; etc.) Recommended readings (to be added)