Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW3198: Business and Human Rights Law

This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Basic reading:

  • Buhmann K, Human Rights: A Key Idea for Business and Society (Routledge 2021).
  • Wettstein F, Ethical, Legal, and Managerial Perspectives (Cambridge University Press 2022). Deva S and Bilchitz D (eds), Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights
    Context and Contours (Cambridge University Press 2018).
  • Olawuyi D (ed), Business and Human Rights Law and Practice in Africa (Edward Elgar 2022).
  • Evans M (ed), International Law (5th edn, Oxford University Press 2018).
  • Newton E, The Business of Human Rights: Best Practice and the UN Guiding Principles (Routledge 2019).
  • Palombo D, Business and Human Rights: The Obligations of the European Home States (Hart 2020).
  • Rodriguez-Garavito C, Business and Human Rights: Beyond the End of the Beginning (Cambridge University Press 2017).
  • Smith R, International Human Rights Law (9th edn, Oxford University Press 2020).
  • Ruggie J, Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights (WWNorton 2013).