This section allows you to access several publications on extraterritorial obligations.
At this stage, you will be able to see publications by the ETO Consortium as well as compilations edited by academics (most of whom are members of the ETO Consortium).
Note! We will shortly have larger databases available: a collection of articles and books by academics. And at later stage two databases bringing together ETO-related publications by civil-society organizations and UN pronouncements on ETOs.
Beneath, you can access key publications: those by the ETO Consortium, all open access articles of the Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations, as well as some other useful articles.
China: Human Rights and Chinese Business Activities in Latin America
Civil society organisations have submitted a report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) on Chinese business activities in nine Latin American countries. In total, 14 cases were analysed in which these activities led to human rights violations and environmental damage. The report provides input to the CESCR on China’s non-compliance with […]
Arms trade and weapons export control
International arms sales are a thriving business giving rise to a host of legal concerns for both the supplying and the recipient countries. How much due diligence is a ‘sending’ state required to engage in before weapons are sold? Does state authorization effectively obviate the existence of fault in corporate officials supplying arms later to […]
Home-state regulation of corporations
The chapter traces a gradual convergence between the regulatory models that underpin these different domains of legal ordering one decade after the endorsement of the United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). It is argues that the location of business actors and activities within the state’s territorial jurisdiction not only justifies […]