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Responsibility of Transnational Corporations for Human Rights Violations under International Law
 Švandová, Helena ; Balaš, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šturma, Pavel (referee)
in English The need for an effective regulation of transnational corporations and its responsibility for human rights abuses has been a topic resonating strongly in the international debate for the past three decades. The suggested solutions to the lack of accountability of transnational business, however, still vary. Among them are suggestions that obligations of states under existing international human rights law could be extended to corporations, a new binding international treaty on business and human rights could be adopted, or that transnational corporations should be held to account under national law. This paper was initially inspired by this debate and seeks to identify the gaps and loopholes in legal regulation to provide better understanding of which ways forward are feasible and under what circumstances. Given these specific objectives, this paper firstly identifies the obstacles to holding transnational corporations responsible for human rights abuses under public international law. It focuses on a conceptual analysis of legal personality in public international law and the limits to legal personality of non-state actors, specifically corporations in international human rights law. This paper then turns to international criminal law and examines whether international criminal law is...
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