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The main aim of this book is to analyze the concept of corporate human rights accountability that has been evolving at the national and international scenario so as to examine whether it is sufficient enough in dealing with the negative human rights impacts created by multinational corporations. It is understood that there is no transition from corporate social responsibility to a concrete form of corporate human rights accountability till date. The time is ripe for both domestic and international frameworks to consider the importance of making corporates socially accountable and to strive to create legal mechanisms for the same.

Contents: Preface. 1. Business and human rights 2. Legal personality of corporations 3. Corporation under the ambit of state and the Indian constitution. 4. Corporations and human rights violations in India. 5. Corporations and human rights violations abroad. 6. Statutes and corporate accountability. 7. Corporation as a subject of international law. 8. Corporate human rights violations and international multi-stakeholder initiatives. 9. Additional international initiatives towards corporate accountability. 10. Mandatory corporate social responsibility in India a myth or reality?. 11 . Corporate social responsibility a comparative perspective. 12 . Application of alien tort statute to corporate human rights violations. 13 . Major obstacles at the national and international level to combat corporate human rights violations. 14 . Corporate human rights accountability the need of the hour.