Full Description
Corporate Social Responsibility has for long been on the agenda in the business world and recently, it has also become a political agenda in the European Union. Focusing on international supply chains and their control based on studies of law in several European jurisdictions, this book aims to advance the discussion on the application and enforcement of CSR. Drawing parallels to US and Canadian law, the book explores to what extent private law tools can be used as an enforcement device and it ultimately asks if what we are witnessing is the formation of a new area of law, employing the interplay of contract and tort - a law of "production liability", as a corollary of the concept of "product liability".
Contents
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Vibe Ulfbeck, Alexandra Andhov & Kateřina Mitkidis
Part I. Contract law
From international law to national law: The opportunities and limits of contractual CSR supply chain governance
Kasey McCall-Smith and Andreas Rühmkorf
Contractual enforcement of CSR clauses and the protection of weak parties in the supply chain
Vibe Ulfbeck, Ole Hansen and Alexandra Andhov
Enforcement of sustainability contractual clauses in supply chains by third parties
Kateřina Mitkidis
Part II. Tort law
Direct and vicarious liability in supply chains
Vibe Ulfbeck and Andreas Ehlers
Liability for "greenwashing"?: On unfair commercial practices, the legal duty to be transparent and the case for a 'safe harbor'
Louise A. Vytopil
Part III. Interplay and overlap of contract and tort law
Interplay between contract and tort in the supply chain
Vibe Ulfbeck and Ole Hansen
Developing supply chain liability: A necessary marriage of contract and tort?
Jaakko Salminen and Vibe Ulfbeck
Index
