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"This volume inquires how regulatory tools stemming from international law, public law, and private law may or may not be used for transnational corporate accountability purposes. Attention is devoted to applicable standards of liability, institutional and jurisdictional issues, and practical challenges, with a focus on ways to improve the existing legal status quo. In addition, there is consideration of the extent to which non-legal regulatory instruments may complement or provide more viable alternatives to these legal mechanisms. The book combines legal-doctrinal approaches with comparative, interdisciplinary and policy insights with the dual aim of furthering the legal scholarly debate on these issues and enabling higher quality decision-making by policymakers seeking to implement regulatory measures that enhance corporate accountability in this context. Through its study of contemporary developments in legislation and case law, it provides a timely and important contribution to the scholarly and socio-political debate in the fast evolving field of international corporate social responsibility and accountability"

Politicians and diplomats have for many years proclaimed a human right to water as a solution to the global water crisis, most recently in the 2010 the UN General Assembly Resolution "The human right to water and sanitation". To what extent, however, can a right to water legally and philosophically exist and what difference to international law and politics can it make? This question lies at the heart of this book. The book's answer is to argue that a right to water exists under international law but in a more differentiated and multi-level manner than previously recognised. Rather than existing as a singular and comprehensive right, the right to water should be understood as a composite right of different layers, both deriving from separate rights to health, life and an adequate standard of living, and supported by an array of regional and national rights. The author also examines the right at a conceptual level. After disproving some of the theoretical objections to the category of socio-economic rights generally and the concept of a right to water more specifically, the manuscript develops an innovative approach towards the interplay of different rights to water among different legal orders. The book argues for an approach to human rights - including the right to water - as international minimum standards, using the right to water as a model case to demonstrate how multilevel human rights protection can function effectively. The book also addresses a crucial last question: how does one make an international right to water meaningful in practice? The manuscript identifies three crucial criteria in order to strengthen such a composite derived right in practice: independent monitoring; enforcement towards the private sector; and international realization. The author examines to what extent these criteria are currently adhered to, and suggests practical ways of how they could be better met in the future

Das schweizerische Arbeitsrecht wird zunehmend durch in internationalen Menschenrechtsverträgen verankerte Arbeitsrechte und durch das EU-Arbeitsrecht beeinflusst. Das vorliegende Werk ist das Ergebnis einer vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds finanzierten Studie, die von ausgewiesenen Expertinnen und Experten durchgeführt wurde. Im Buch werden die gegenseitigen Bezüge zwischen nationalem, internationalem und europäischem Arbeitsrecht aufgezeigt. Systematisch und umfassend wird herausgearbeitet, wie das EU-Arbeitsrecht und das Arbeitsvölkerrecht auf das nationale Arbeitsrecht einwirken. Es wird deutlich, dass sowohl im EU-Arbeitsrecht als auch im schweizerischen Arbeitsrecht ein Spannungsfeld zwischen Markt- und Vertragsfreiheit und Regelungen zum Schutz des Arbeitnehmers besteht. Das Arbeitsvölkerrecht bildet dabei für beide Rechtsordnungen einen verbindlichen Rahmen und eine Orientierung. Die internationale Judikatur (besonders des EuGH und des EGMR) wird intensiv verarbeitet und zitiert. Die Publikation enthält so einen reichen Fundus an Lösungsmöglichkeiten in der arbeitsrechtlichen Praxis. Das Buch richtet sich an die nationale und internationale Arbeitsrechtswissenschaft und an die Arbeitsrechtspraxis, die Verwaltung und die Politik.

The Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Security Law) highlights the shortcomings of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration and the inherent conflicts of the "one coun­try, two systems" principle. The arrangement has always been full of contradictions and grey areas. With the Security Law, the Chinese leadership has created facts on the ground. The move comes at the expense of civil liberties and accelerates the spread of socialist legal concepts in Hong Kong. But, on this issue, Beijing is not isolated in­ter­nation­ally. On the contrary, it is supported by economically dependent states in its assess­ment of the Security Law as an internal affair. China's ambition to gain inter­nation­al discourse power in legal matters is strategically embedded in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Beijing's course of action in Hong Kong serves as a test balloon in this endeavour. Decision-makers in Germany and Europe are still not sufficiently aware of the problems concerning Chinese legal concepts. More expertise is urgently needed. (author's abstract)