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A New Case for Human Rights Due Diligence in Supply Chains
The CLS Blue Sky Blog (2020)
  • Kish Parella
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.
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].