Business and Human Rights

Business and Human Rights is a growing field looking at the impact of business enterprises on human rights. It is based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. In this field, legal scholars from public international law, private international law, comparative law, corporate law or criminal law, among others, combine expertise to develop new regulatory frameworks to ensure that companies conduct due diligence in their global value chain with regard to human rights. Scholars also increasingly look at how companies may be held accountable through civil or criminal liability regulations.

UNGP, OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, Multinational enterprises, Human rights due diligence, Corporate liability, Extraterritoriality

• Bueno Nicolas and Claire Bright, Implementing Human Rights Due Diligence through Corporate Civil Liability, 69(4) International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2020). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020589320000305. You can read this article for free here.
• Bueno Nicolas, Switzerland, in Kessedjian and Cantú Rivera (eds.), Private International Law Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility (Springer 2020) 573-593 http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35187-8_18 (with Andrea Bonomi).
• Bueno Nicolas, The Swiss Popular Initiative on Responsible Business: From Responsibility to Liability (PDF, 273 KB), in Enneking et al. (eds), Accountability, International Business Operations and the Law: Providing Justice for Corporate Human Rights Violations in Global Value Chains (Routledge 2020) 239-259 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351127165-12
• Bueno Nicolas, Der lange Weg zur Konzern­verantwortung und Konzern­haftung in der Schweiz, VerfBlog, 2020/6/09.
• Bueno Nicolas, Multinational Enterprises and Labour Rights: Concepts and Implementation (PDF, 275 KB), in Bellace / ter Haar (eds), Research Handbook on Labour, Business and Human Rights Law (Edward Elgar 2019) 421-438 https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433114.00037
• Bueno Nicolas, Diligence en matière de droits de l'homme et responsabilité de l'entreprise: Le point en droit suisse, 29(3) Swiss Review of International and European Law (2019) 345-366.
• Bueno Nicolas, The Swiss Responsible Business Initiative and its Counter-Proposal: Texts and Current Developments, 8 December 2018.
• Bueno Nicolas, ‘Corporate Liability for Violations of the Human Right to Just Conditions of Work in Extraterritorial Operations’, 21(5) The International Journal of Human Rights (2017) 565-588.
• Bueno Nicolas, ‘La responsabilité des entreprises de respecter les droits de l’homme : État de la pratique Suisse’ Pratique Juridique Actuelle PJA/AJP (2017) 1015-1023.
• Bueno Nicolas, ‘Swiss Multinational Corporations and Transnational Corruption: Management Matters’, Swiss Review of Business and Financial Market Law (2017) 199-209.
• Bueno Nicolas, ‘Entreprises multinationales et droits de l’homme: une question de minorité et de majorité”, in Andreas Ziegler and Julie Kuffer (eds.), Minorities and the Law: Liber Amicorum for Professor Barbara Wilson, 191-204 (Zurich: Schulthess 2016).
• Bueno Nicolas and Sophie Scheidt, ‘Die Sorgfaltspflichten von Unternehmen im Hinblick auf die Einhaltung von Menschenrechten bei Auslandsaktivitäten’ (Vienna: Netzwerk Soziale Verantwortung, 2015), 32 p.
• Bueno Nicolas, ‘Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch im Ausland operierende Unternehmen: Regulierungslücken in Österreich schließen’, in Menschen.Recht.Wirtschaft (Vienna: Netzwerk Soziale Verantwortung, 2014), p. 9-40.