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This book examines the extent to which international law places obligations directly on corporate entities. It is often argued that corporations are bound by, inter alia, the same human rights and environmental obligations that states have. This book examines the source of these supposed obligations in treaty law, international custom, and in internationalized contracts, to determine whether they really can be transposed to corporations so easily. The focus of the book is on the regulation by international law of private corporate conduct. It examines whether corporate obligations, namely obligations binding directly upon a corporation under positive international law, have indeed emerged, and if so, whether corporations may be systemically included in the predominantly state-centric framework of international law. It investigates the challenges facing international law as a result of the potential emergence of corporate obligations, and engages in a structural analysis of what corporate obligations under international human rights law might entail. Ultimately, it warns against conceptualizing corporations as both holders and potential violators of human rights, explaining why they are not automatically bound by the same obligations that are imposed on states.

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This book is the product of impressive legal research into both well-trodden and neglected areas of the international legal field, and its legal analysis is sophisticated... Corporation Obligations Under International Law undoubtedly makes a valuable and significant contribution to international legal research on how international law governs the conduct of corporations. * Cecily Rose, British Yearbook of International Law * Karavias should be credited for his rigorous analysis of the positive law in this field, where the waters have been sometimes muddied by activist lawyers. He should be praised for injecting an insight into the debate which has so far received fairly little attention: the problematique of the corporation as both a human rights obligor (addressee of human rights obligations) and a human rights holder (beneficiary of human rights). What the status of a rights-holder means for its status as a rights-obligor has, to my knowledge, never been tackled as lucidly as it is by Karavias. * Cedric Ryngaert, The Journal of World Investment & Trade *

Karavias should be credited for his rigorous analysis of the positive law in this field, where the waters have been sometimes muddied by activist lawyers. He should be praised for injecting an insight into the debate which has so far received fairly little attention: the problematique of the corporation as both a human rights obligor (addressee of human rights obligations) and a human rights holder (beneficiary of human rights). What the status of a rights-holder means for its status as a rights-obligor has, to my knowledge, never been tackled as lucidly as it is by Karavias. Cedric Ryngaert, The Journal of World Investment & Trade This book is the product of impressive legal research into both well-trodden and neglected areas of the international legal field, and its legal analysis is sophisticated... Corporation Obligations Under International Law undoubtedly makes a valuable and significant contribution to international legal research on how international law governs the conduct of corporations. Cecily Rose, British Yearbook of International Law

This book is the product of impressive legal research into both well-trodden and neglected areas of the international legal field, and its legal analysis is sophisticated... Corporation Obligations Under International Law undoubtedly makes a valuable and significant contribution to international legal research on how international law governs the conduct of corporations. Cecily Rose, British Yearbook of International Law

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Markos Karavias is a Senior Researcher at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam. He has previously acted as a Special Advisor to the Greek Minister for Environment, Energy and Climate Change. Markos Karavias hold a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

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