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This article explores global legal pluralism within the development and operation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. It considers the extent of any norm creation by corporations and by civil society in relation to the activities of corporations that affect human rights, and the way in which these have been utilized by the Guiding Principles (base don the Framework). It does so within the context of the development of international law, which is traditionally considered to be focussed on state-to-state regulation, to take account of the actions of corporations.

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Why is it important?

This article considers the various influences on norm-creation in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights that are beyond the State. This is vital to understanding that corporations can act to protect human rights for reasons that are not limited to compliance with international or domestic hard law.

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This page is a summary of: Pluralism, global law and human rights: Strengthening corporate accountability for human rights violations, Global Constitutionalism, June 2013, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s2045381713000099.
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