Overview

Business clients are increasingly seeking their lawyers' advice and assistance with human rightsdue diligence (HRDD). Their clients must navigate compliance with a growing array of legalrequirements and soft law standards defining the expectations of governments, investors, andsociety that businesses respect human rights. Consequently, new opportunities are arising forlawyers 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 thatshould assist lawyers with understanding not only the fundamentals of HRDD but also crucial aspectsof the process. Part I of the book examines the essentials of HRDD, including the HRDD process, lawyers' ethicalobligations related to HRDD, and key due diligence legal requirements. In Part II, practicalaspects of implementing HRDD are explored, including corporate governance, HRDD's relationship tocompliance 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 affecthow their business clients perform HRDD. Therefore, the final section, Part III, addresses four ofthose key areas: suppliers in value chains, the financial sector, the intersection of environmentallaw and climate change issues with HRDD, and high-risk security situations, such as those incountries that are politically unstable or undergoing conflict. The goal of the expert contributions to this book is to further lawyers' understanding and tofacilitate their role in assisting businesses to respect human rights, which should, at the sametime, foster businesses' contribution to sustainable developmentand the social factor of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance).

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Author:   Corinne Elizabeth Lewis ,  Constance Z. Wagner ,  American Bar Association
Publisher:   American Bar Association
Imprint:   American Bar Association
ISBN:  

9781639052028

ISBN 10:   163905202
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   05 December 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

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Dr. Corinne E. Lewis, a partner in the Brussels-based law firm Lex Justi, is an international human rights lawyer with a specialization in business and human rights. She provides legal advice to a range of clients based on her corporate law background as in-house counsel with a major multinational company and her 30 years of international human rights law experience, including work at the United Nations. She also has taught human rights law and public international law courses at US and UK universities. Having lived and worked in the United States and multiple countries in Asia and Europe, she brings an international perspective to her diverse projects. In addition to a PhD in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Dr. Lewis has an LLM (with honors) from Georgetown University and a JD from Indiana University. She is Immediate past co-chair of the ABA International Law Section's International Human Rights Committee.

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