Business and human rights in Europe: international law challenges

In recent years, the European Union, the Council of Europe and their Member States have been adopting policies and legislation to ensure respect for human rights by businesses operating as multinational enterprises.

These legal instruments can be considered the European responses to the challenges posed at international-law level, and they constitute the focus of research of this book.

Through its collected chapters - written by scholars and practitioners under the direction of the editor, Angelica Bonfanti - the book identifies the European solutions to the business and human rights international legal issues, provides an overall assessment of their effectiveness, and examines their potential evolution.