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Human rights violations in global supply chains have been a focus of public discussions for nearly three decades. To address such violations in global supply chains, pressure was put on transnational corporations (TNCs) to use their economic power to prevent such harms from occurring at supplier factories, often located in the Global South. TNCs with well-known brands started to introduce codes of conduct for their suppliers as early as the 1990s. However, this approach was rarely, if ever, addressed or monitored through international or national law. Ensuring socially responsible supply chains was anchored in the voluntary assumption of responsibilities by private corporate actors. The inadequacies of the business-driven soft law approach to improve working conditions at supplier factories and natural resource collection sites drove a shift toward legal regulation. The shift toward national legal regulation consequently established a definitive link between soft and hard international human rights law and national law. The linking of international law to national through human rights due diligence is the focus of this chapter.
This entry discusses the role of sustainability in the law school. It traces the concept of sustainability in law and it argues that, in recent years, ‘Sustainability Law’ has evolved as a new field of law. This view is supported through applying theory on the creation of legal fields. There is an increasing number of regulation (particularly EU Directives) aimed at promoting sustainability and there is a growing number of journal articles as well as law school courses on this issue. There are several longstanding debates in legal modules which already overlap with the three pillars of sustainability (i.e. the economic, environmental and social pillars). Students should be alerted to these links. Finally, the chapter argues that the concept of sustainability should be integrated in modules across the curriculum in law schools as a contribution to UNESCO’s mission to promote Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
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