The Zero Draft of a Legally Binding Instrument to regulate the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprise
Larry Catá Backer, Regulating Multinational Corporations — Trends, Challenges and Opportunities, Brown Journal of World Affairs 22(1):153-173 (2015) Backer.pdf
Larry Catá Backer, Moving Forward the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights: Between Enterprise Social Norm, State Domestic Legal Orders, and the Treaty Law That Might Bind Them All, Fordham Int’l L.J. 38:457 (2015)
Larry Catá Backer, Shaping a Global Law for Business Enterprises: Framing Principles and the Promise of a Comprehensive Treaty on Business and Human Rights, North Carolina Journal of International Law 42(2): 417-504 (2016). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: REV_Backer_2AE1_CLEAN
Larry Catá Backer, “Pragmatism Without Principle?: How a Comprehensive Treaty on Business and Human Rights Ought to be Framed, Why It Can’t, and the Dangers of the Pragmatic Turn in Treaty Crafting,” in Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours 105-130 (Surya Deva and David Bilchitz, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017). ISBN978-1-107-19911-8 (hrbk). ACCESS CHAPTER HERE
Larry Catá Backer, “Considering a Treaty on Corporations and Human Rights: Mostly Failures But With a Glimmer of Success,” in The Future of Business and Human Rights: Theoretical and Practical Considerations for a UN Treaty (Nicolás Carillo-Santarelli and Jernej Letnar Cernic, eds., Intersentia, 2018). PRE-PUBLICATION VERSION MAY BE ACCESSED HERE: 9781780684918_The Future of Business and Human Rights, 04.
Other resources:
Phil Bloomer and Maysa Zorob, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Another Step on the Road? What does the “Zero Draft” Treaty mean for the Business and Human Rights movement? (2018).
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre as part of their Reflections on the Zero Draft blog series on the proposed binding treaty on business and human rights.
Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli, Some Observations and Opinions on the “Zero” Version of the Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights (Part I), Opinio Juris (2018).
Humberto Cantú Rivera, Some Remarks on the Third Sessions of the Business and Human Rights Treaty Process and the Zero Draft Section II: Dossie Especial: Business and Human Rights (2018). Download here: HumbertoCantuRiveraSomeRe
Essays in: Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours 105-130 (Surya Deva and David Bilchitz, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Essays in: The Future of Business and Human Rights: Theoretical and Practical Considerations for a UN Treaty (Nicolás Carillo-Santarelli and Jernej Letnar Cernic, eds., Intersentia, 2018).
European Parliament, Briefing: Towards a binding international treaty on business and human rights (2018). Download HERE. EPRS_BRI(2018)630266_EN
Claire Methven O’Brien, Experimentalist Global Governance and the case for a Framework Convention based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, Navigating a New Era of Business and Human Rights: Challenges and Opportunities under the UNGPs (M.Mullen, et al., eds., forthcoming 2019).
Olivier de Schutter, ‘Towards a New Treaty on Business and Human Rights,’ Business and Human Rights Law Journal 1(1):41-67 (2016)