Abstract 

Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities worldwide through the rapid pace of technological change and globalisation. But such corporations have to date been largely overlooked in the field of business and human rights. Treatment of such corporations has typically been in the context of supply chain studies, as subsidiaries of corporations from economically developed Western states. This book takes a radically different approach. It aims to investigate the conditions under which the European Union and its Member States regulate and remedy human rights violations by corporations from emerging and developing states. Stemming from the hypothesis that the EU intends to play a central role, Aleydis Nissen explores how the EU and its Member States attempt to ensure that EU-based businesses are not undercut by emerging competition, drawing on global examples to illustrate this developing phenomenon. 

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Speaker

Dr Aleydis Nissen is a researcher at the Free University of Brussels and Leiden Law School. Previously, she was a researcher at Cardiff University and Vlerick Business School and a visiting researcher at the University of Nairobi, Seoul National University and the University of Oxford. Earlier this year, she contributed to a report that was commissioned by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. Read more on her webpage.