Business, Human Rights and the Environment: The Evolving Agenda

More than ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, this book critically reviews the achievements, limits and next frontiers of business and human rights following the ‘protect, respect, remedy’ trichotomy. The UN Guiding Principles acted as a catalyst for hitherto unprecedented regulatory and judicial developments.

The monograph by Macchi proposes a functionalist reading of the state’s duty to regulate the transnational activities of corporat...