Article
A New Case for Human Rights Due Diligence in Supply Chains
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
(2020)
Abstract
Professor Parella previews her new paper, “Protecting Contract’s Hidden Parties,” in which she argues that harm to third parties from supply chains offers a compelling reason for requiring human rights due diligence in supply chains. Many scholars have turned to fiduciary duties or negligence theories to create incentives for companies to consider non-shareholder interests. This article shares this objective but takes a different path by examining a corporation’s duties to others in its role as a contracting party. This analysis can help to address human rights violations in supply chains and may also have implications for third-party harms arising in other types of contracts.
Disciplines
Publication Date
July 24, 2020
Citation Information
Kish Parella, A New Case for Human Rights Due Diligence in Supply Chains, The CLS Blue Sky Blog (July 24, 2020), https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2020/07/24/a-new-case-for-human-rights-due-diligence-in-supply-chains [https://perma.cc/B4AW-YPNZ].