The regulation of business in the global economy poses one of the main challenges for governance, as illustrated by the dynamic scholarly and policy debates about the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and a possible international treaty on the matter. This book takes on the conceptual and legal underpinnings of global governance approaches to business and human rights, with an emphasis on the Guiding Principles (GPs) and attention to the current treaty process. Analyses of the GPs have tended to focus on their static dimension, such as the standards they include, rather than...

Scholars, practitioners, activists and students in human rights, international development, social policy, socio-legal studies, law, sociology and critical economics will find this to be an accessible book on the potential of human rights to challenge economic inequalities and their adverse impacts on human wellbeing.