Legal Sources in Business and Human Rights: Evolving Dynamics in International and European Law

Legal Sources in Business and Human Rights engages with some evolving trends that are currently affecting the international and EU law sources in the field of Business and Human Rights. Three main dynamics are detected and explored: the emergence of international legal obligations that are also binding on corporations (Part I); the growing participation of corporations in traditional international standard-setting and law-making processes and, in parallel, the emergence of atypical and heterogeneous law-making processes (Part II); the formal or substantive hardening of originally soft normative standards, through a multi-layered and multi-player law-making process (Part III). Interestingly, these trends concur to mitigate States’ reluctance to accept binding rules in this field, and to strengthen the effectiveness of soft international regulation.

Martina Buscemi, (Ph.D., University of Milan, 2017) is a Research Fellow in International Law at the University of Milan. She has published several articles and book chapters on different topic of international law, including the law of international responsibility, treaty law, and human-rights-related issues.
Nicole Lazzerini, (Ph.D., European University Institute, 2013) is Assistant Professor of EU law at the University of Florence where she teaches EU Institutional Law in the Law School and in the School of Political Sciences. She has published a monograph and several articles on institutional aspects of the European integration.
Laura Magi, (Ph.D., University of Padua, 2007) is Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Florence where she teaches International Law in the School of Economics and in the School of Political Sciences. She has published a monograph and several articles on conflicts of norms and jurisdictions, human rights law and the law of international responsibility.
Deborah Russo, (Ph.D, University of Florence, 2009) is Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Florence. She teaches “International Law” and “Advanced International Law”. She has published a monograph and several articles on different topics of International Law.