“While international environmental, human rights and labour standards are well established, they have yet to be adequately brought to bear on global corporate citizens.”
Oonagh E. Fitzgerald on the book Corporate Citizen
The Role of Corporate Citizens Is More Important than Ever
Corporate Citizen: New Perspectives on the Globalized Rule of Law, a book edited by Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, attracted attention to the role of corporations in areas such as human rights and the environment. While many of the chapters highlight progress, others were less charitable. In fact, as the LSE Review of Books noted, Corporate Citizen explores “how the notion of corporate global citizenship has enabled corporations to evade responsibilities and liabilities and block or weaken measures that might increase corporate accountability.”
A virtual panel series with the University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre explored the role of “corporate citizens” in a post-pandemic world. The series asked book authors and other legal experts to assess how responses to the COVID-19 pandemic could reshape multinational corporations.