Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2007
ISSN
0272-5037
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
My presentation advances a more expansive vision of the subjects and sources of international law by conceptualizing recent efforts to bring the conduct of private transnational commercial actors into compliance with human rights norms as potentially law making. Applying the "communication process theory" of international law making advanced by Professor Michael Reisman to the recent proliferation of pledges made by private corporate actors purporting to embrace international development priorities and human rights principles in response to civil society activism, I argue that international legal scholars should develop a critical appreciation for the ways in which non-state actors are engaged in a process of functional norm generation and law making.
Recommended Citation
Erika George,
The Place of the Private Transnational Actor in International Law: Human Rights Norms, Development Aims, and Understanding Corporate Self-Regulation as Soft Law
,
in
101
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law)
473
(2007).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3853
