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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Times of Covid

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a concept that notoriously evades definition. Some have said that companies should act in socially responsible ways in their daily operations while charitable donations have...

12 May 2020

Akshaya Kamalnath

The Privatisation of International Labour Standards: A Positive Development for Workplace Norms?

The regulation of the workplace environment through international labour standards has been a task entrusted to the International Labour Organization (ILO) since its foundation in 1919. Today, as the ILO...

13 November 2019

Maayan Menashe

Certifying ‘Good’ Companies: Regulatory Schemes for Corporate Sustainability in a Comparative Perspective

Ensuring sustainability is one of the grand challenges of our times, but nation-states are severely overstrained with this monumental task. Since states’ legislative power is limited, the suitable design of...

22 January 2019

Florian Möslein

Caremark as Soft Law

Compliance is a stunningly hot topic, with companies spending significant resources on it, and probably literally, dozens of conferences on the subject each week.[1] One curious...

5 October 2018

Claire Hill

Initial Experience in Implementing CSR Law in India

While corporate social responsibility (CSR) was for a long time considered a voluntary matter, to be exercised by companies in the interests of stakeholders, it is increasingly acquiring legal status,...

6 July 2018

Umakanth Varottil

A New Way to Impose Financial Sanctions on Dictators

An age-old question in international finance is that of what happens to a despotic government’s debts when the despots are vanquished and the good guys take over. Do the good...

9 May 2018

Mitu Gulati

Ugo Panizza

The Relationship between Public Listing, Context, Multi-nationality and Internal CSR

This cross-country study argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) has an internal as well as an external focus: although the internal aspect has been less carefully examined in the literature,...

Teaching Corporate Social Responsibility to Aspiring Business Lawyers

After each horrifying factory disaster, financial scandal and tax avoidance exposé, the question on everyone’s lips is: how do we make corporations act more responsibly? While there have been numerous...

20 December 2017

Alex Geert Castermans

Morshed Mannan

Caspar Van Woensel

The Separation of Corporate Law and Social Welfare

The Washington & Lee Law Review is publishing a symposium celebrating the scholarly careers of Professors Lyman Johnson and David Millon on the occasion of their respective retirements. My essay,...

4 April 2017

William W. Bratton

The Impact of Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from India’s Companies Act of 2013

A vast literature on firms’ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity has emerged in recent years across a number of scholarly disciplines, including law, economics, management, accounting, and finance. Our paper...

21 November 2016

Dhammika Dharmapala

Vikramaditya Khanna

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Times of Covid

The Privatisation of International Labour Standards: A Positive Development for Workplace Norms?

Certifying ‘Good’ Companies: Regulatory Schemes for Corporate Sustainability in a Comparative Perspective

Caremark as Soft Law

Initial Experience in Implementing CSR Law in India

A New Way to Impose Financial Sanctions on Dictators

The Relationship between Public Listing, Context, Multi-nationality and Internal CSR

Teaching Corporate Social Responsibility to Aspiring Business Lawyers

The Separation of Corporate Law and Social Welfare

The Impact of Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from India’s Companies Act of 2013

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