The Business of Human Rights copublication

The Open University has collaborated with Zed Books to publish a new book entitled The Business of Human Rights.

The book is edited by Helen Yanacopulos (Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Development at The Open University) and Aurora Voiculescu (Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies and Human Rights, University of Westminster).

This timely collection of essays addresses the interface between the calls for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the demands for an extension of international human rights standards.

Scholars from a vast variety of backgrounds provide expert yet accessible accounts of questions of law, politics, economics and international relations and how they relate to one another.

The book also encourages non-legal perspectives on how businesses operate within and around human rights.

The result is an essential incursion for a wide range of scholars, practitioners and students in law, development, business studies and international studies, in this emerging area of human rights.

This book will support students studying W822 Business, human rights law and corporate social responsibility.

The Business of Human Rights ISBN 978 1 848 13862 9
Published by Zed Books (2011)