A new book for a new year!
This monograph on transnational human rights litigation against multi-national corporations in the US and the UK has now been published by Edward Elgar Ltd. For further details go to:
Contents:
1. Corporations and International Law
2. Suing in the US (1). Jurisdiction
3. Suing in the US (2). The Alien Tort
Statute 1789 and Statutory Causes of Action
4. The ‘Law of Nations’ as a Cause of Action in the US
5. Tort Caims Against MNCs in the US
6. Tort Claims Against TNCs in the UK
7. Customary International Law as a Cause of Action Outside the US
8. Voluntary Codes and the UN Guiding Principles
Conclusion
Index
304 pp Hardback 978 0 85793 475 8
Dec 2015 £80.00 (UK/RoW) • Feb 2016 $125.00 (N/S America)
Elgaronline 978 0 85793 476 5
Corporations, Globalisation and the Law series
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Professor Simon Baughen
Professor Simon Baughen was appointed as Professor of Shipping Law in September 2013 (previously Reader at the University of Bristol Law School). Simon Baughen studied law at Oxford and practised in maritime law for several years before joining academia. His research interests lie mainly in the field of shipping law, but also include the law of trusts and the environmental law implications of the activities of multinational corporations in the developing world. Simon's book on Shipping Law, has run to seven editions (soon to be eight) and is already well-known to academics and students alike as by far the most learned and approachable work on the subject. Furthermore, he is now the author of the very well-established practitioner's work Summerskill on Laytime. He has an extensive list of publications to his name, including International Trade and the Protection of the Environment, and Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs - Closing the Governance Gap. He has also written and taught extensively on commercial law, trusts and environmental law. Simon is a member of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, a University Research Centre within the School of Law, and he currently teaches at Swansea on the LLM in:Carriage of Goods by Sea, Land and Air; Charterparties Law and Practice; International Corporate Governance.
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