See eg SullivanR. (ed), Business and Human Rights: Dilemmas and Solutions (2003); KammingaM. T.Zia-ZarifiS. (eds), Liability of Multinational Corporations under International Law (2000); AddoM. (ed), Human Rights Standards and the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations (1999).
2.
These are: In Australia — Corporate Code of Conduct Bill 2000; a Private Member's Bill sponsored by Senator Vicki Bourne (introduced in September 2000); and in the US — the Corporate Code of Conduct Bill 2000; HR 4596 IH, introduced in the House of Representatives in June 2000 by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
3.
Lois relative aux nouvelles régulations économiques, LOI no 2001-420 du 15 Mai 2001. For commentary in English, see MacaireSimon, European Industrial Relations Observatory Online, New Economic Regulations Law Adopted, May 2001, <http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/2001/05/feature/FR0105156F.htm> at 27 August 2003.
4.
In relation to the leading cases in this regard in the UK and Australia, see KinleyD.BottomleyS. (eds) Commercial Law and Human Rights (2001).
5.
27 Cal 4th 939 (2002); for the decision of the US Supreme Court dismissing a writ of certiorari see Nike v Marc Kasky 539 US (2003).
6.
Section 52 provides that a corporation shall not ‘in trade or commerce engage in conduct that is misleading or deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive’.
7.
For details of this label see the website of the Fairtrade Label Organisation <http://www.fairtrade.net/> at 9 February 2004.
8.
The amount invested in such funds has increased to over US$2.3 trillion in the US. Report: Socially Screened Assets Grew 1.5 Times Faster than All US Managed Portfolio Assets Since 1999 <http://www.socialinvest.org/areas/news/2001-trends.htm> at 9 February 2004. Australian Ethical Investments is one of the most successful managed funds in Australia.
