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Beyond Regulation: A Comparative Look At State-Centric Corporate Social Responsibility And The Law In China, Virginia H. Ho
Beyond Regulation: A Comparative Look At State-Centric Corporate Social Responsibility And The Law In China, Virginia H. Ho
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is often understood as the voluntary actions firms take beyond legal compliance. However, in recent years, governments around the world have also begun to actively promote CSR, reflecting broader governance trends that embrace "soft law," quasi-voluntary standards, and other novel incentives to move companies toward and beyond minimum regulatory goals. Comparative legal scholarship has only recently begun to consider the intersections of these mechanisms with positive law, formal institutions, and traditional regulatory enforcement structures. The adoption of these policies in historically weak regulatory environments raises puzzling questions about their motivation, scope, and potential. As a leader …
Solving "The Gravest Natural Resource Shortage You've Never Heard Of": Applying Transnational New Governance To The Phosphate Industry, Chelsae R. Johansen
Solving "The Gravest Natural Resource Shortage You've Never Heard Of": Applying Transnational New Governance To The Phosphate Industry, Chelsae R. Johansen
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Experts believe that global reserves of phosphates, an essential and irreplaceable ingredient in fertilizers, will only last another fifty to one hundred years. Although the consequences of a phosphate shortage include a global famine and decreased world population, the phosphate industry today operates with little concern for sustainable mining and use of the resource. Because the current system of international governance is neither raising awareness of the looming phosphate shortage nor incentivizing phosphate-industry members to act sustainably, the future of phosphates and of food security depend on a decentralized system of internal industry governance known as Transnational New Governance. This …