Full Description
Business clients are increasingly seeking their lawyers' advice and assistance with human rights due diligence (HRDD). Their clients must navigate compliance with a growing array of legal requirements and soft law standards defining the expectations of governments, investors, and society that businesses respect human rights. Consequently, new opportunities are arising for lawyers to provide services and advice to businesses on HRDD.
This guide, intended for U.S. and foreign lawyers alike, is an indispensable resource on HRDD that should assist lawyers with understanding not only the fundamentals of HRDD but also crucial aspects of the process.
Part I of the book examines the essentials of HRDD, including the HRDD process, lawyers' ethical obligations related to HRDD, and key due diligence legal requirements. In Part II, practical aspects of implementing HRDD are explored, including corporate governance, HRDD's relationship to compliance approaches, use of grievance mechanisms, stakeholder engagement, gender-sensitive HRDD, and consultation with indigenous peoples.
In this rapidly developing area, lawyers also need to be aware of key developments that will affect how their business clients perform HRDD. Therefore, the final section, Part III, addresses four of those key areas: suppliers in value chains, the financial sector, the intersection of environmental law and climate change issues with HRDD, and high-risk security situations, such as those in countries that are politically unstable or undergoing conflict.
The goal of the expert contributions to this book is to further lawyers' understanding and to facilitate their role in assisting businesses to respect human rights, which should, at the same time, foster businesses' contribution to sustainable development and the social factor of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance).
Contents
Contents
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
PART I
AN INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN
RIGHTS DUE DILIGENCE . . . . 1
Chapter 1
The
Evolving Concept of Human Rights Due Diligence
. . . . . . . . 3
Corinne E . Lewis
Chapter 2
The
Due Diligence Process
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Hind
Merabet
Chapter 3
Lawyers' Ethical Obligations and Human Rights Due Diligence
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Steven M . Richman
Chapter 4
French Due Diligence Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
François
de Cambiaire and Alice Murgier
Chapter 5
Human Rights Due Diligence Requirements
Outside the United
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Esmira
Hackenberg, Olivia Dean, and Shelley Marshall
PART II
APPROACHING HUMAN RIGHTS DUE DILIGENCE REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
A. A PRACTICAL APPROACH
Chapter 6
Human
Rights Due Diligence and Corporate Governance . . . . 141
John F . Sherman
III
Chapter 7
Integrating Human Rights Due Diligence into Compliance Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Anahita
Thoms
Chapter 8
Making
the Connection: Operational-Level Grievance Diligence . . . . 195
Lisa J . Laplante
Chapter 9
Stakeholder Engagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Shauna
Curphey and Jared Cole
Chapter 10
Gender-Responsive Human Rights Due
Diligence . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Constance Z . Wagner and Nancy Kaymar Stafford
Chapter 11
Human Rights Due Diligence Practices for Adequate and
Effective Consultation with Indigenous Peoples
. . . . . . . . . 277
Thomas
Andrew O'Keefe
B. SPECIFIC CHALLENGES
Chapter 12
The United Nations Guiding
Principles on Business
and Human Rights and Global Supply
Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Andrea
Shemberg and Bettina Braun
Chapter 13
Leveraging the Financial Sector for
Human Rights . . . . . . . . . . 325
Margaret G . Wachenfeld
Chapter 14
Environmental Law and Climate
Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Carlos
de Miguel Perales and Austin Pierce
Chapter 15
Due Diligence
in Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas . . . . . 381
Morvarid
Bagheri
Index ................................................................................... 403