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37 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 287 (2005-2006)
Multinational Corporations, Transnational Law: The United Nations' Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations as a Harbinger of Corporate Social Responsility in International Law

handle is hein.journals/colhr37 and id is 295 raw text is: MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS, TRANSNATIONAL LAW: THE UNITED NATIONS' NORMS ON THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AS A HARBINGER OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW Larry Catd Backer* This Article considers the ramifications of current efforts to internationalize the regulation of corporate social responsibility. The primary focus will be on the United Nations' efforts to regulate transnational corporations through the development of its Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights.1 The Norms are * Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law. The author can be contacted at lcbll@psu.edu. An earlier version of this article was presented for the plenary panel on Corporate Social Responsibility: Reform and Race at the Second National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C., October 7, 2004. Special thanks to my research assistant Michael Davey (Penn State '05) for his very able work on this project. 1. U.N. Econ. & Soc. Council (ECOSOC), Sub-Comm'n on Promotion & Prot. of Human Rights, Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/L.8 (Aug. 7, 2003) (draft resolution prepared by Alfonso Martinez et al.), available at http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.ns f/0/6b10e6a7e6f3b747c1256d8100211a60?Opendocument. This document was subsequently revised. See ECOSOC, Sub-Comm'n on Promotion & Prot. of Human Rights, Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/12/Rev.2 (Aug. 26, 2003), available at http://www.unhchr. ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/0/64155e7e814b38cc1256d63002c55e8?OpenDocument [hereinafter Norms]. All references to the Norms are to the revised Norms issued August 26, 2003. For the official commentary on the Norms, see ECOSOC, Sub-