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Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization, by Daniel E. Lee and Elizabeth J. Lee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Paperback, xvi + 264 pages. ISBN: 978-0521519335.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Lili Yan
Affiliation:
George Washington University
Timothy Fort
Affiliation:
George Washington University

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1. Lee, Daniel E. & Lee, Elizabeth J., Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization 12 (Cambridge University Press, 2010).Google Scholar For a harsher critique of the idea of self-evident moral truths and human rights from the field of business ethics, see the critique from Frederick, Bill, Frederick, William C., Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation (Oxford University Press 1995).Google Scholar

2. Lee, Daniel E. & Lee, Elizabeth J., Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization 34 (Cambridge University Press, 2010).Google Scholar

3. Id. at 247.

4. Id.

5. Id. at 55, citing Kant, Immanuel, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals 41 (4:433) (Gregor, Mary trans.; Cambridge University Press 1998).Google Scholar

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7. Werhane, Patricia H., Persons, Rights, and Corporations (Prentice Hall 1982).Google Scholar

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15. See, e.g.,The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, 15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd–1, et seq. (“FCPA”).

16. See, e.g., Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (“The Data Protection Directive”).

17. For a set of critiques about extra-territoriality in general and with the FCPA in mind, see Salbu, Steven R., Bribery in the Global Market: A Critical Analysis of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 54 Wash, . & Lee, L. REV. 229, 283–84 (1997);Google Scholarsee also Salbu, Steven R., The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act as a Threat to Global Harmony, 20 MICH. J. INT’L L. 419, 433 (1999);Google Scholarsee also Are Extraterritorial Restrictions on Bribery a Viable and Desirable International Policy Goal Under the Global Conditions of the Late Twentieth Century? 24 YALE J. INT’L L. 223 (1999).Google Scholar

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19. Id. at 211.

20. Id.

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25. For a more extensive discussion of these numbers, see Fort, Timothy L., Fort, Ethics and Governance; Business as Mediating Institution (Oxford University Press 2001).Google Scholar

26. See King, Martin Luther Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail at http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/ documents/letter_birmingham_jail.pdf (last accessed April 21, 2012).Google Scholar Originally, The Negro Is Your Brother, 212 The Atlantic Monthly 78 (1963).Google Scholar