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The Case for an International Court of Civil Justice. By Maya Steinitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 241 + xiv pages.

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The Case for an International Court of Civil Justice. By Maya Steinitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 241 + xiv pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2020

HASSAN M. AHMAD
HASSAN M. AHMAD*
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SJD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 57 , November 2020 , pp. 647 - 652
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1 Gardner, John, From Personal Life to Private Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar at 189.

2 Steinitz, Maya, The Case for an International Court of Civil Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)Google Scholar.

3 See e.g. Blumberg, Phillip I, The Multinational Challenge to Corporation Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993 Google Scholar); Simons, Penelope & Macklin, Audrey, The Governance Gap: Extractive Industries, Human Rights and the Home State Advantage (New York: Routledge, 2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 See e.g. Ruggie, John G, “Business and Human Rights: The Evolving International Agenda” (2007) 101:4 Am J Intl L 819 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Adeyeye, Adefolake, “Corporate Responsibility in International Law: Which Way to Go?” (2007) 11 SYBIL 141 Google Scholar; Scherer, Andreas G et al, “Managing for Political Corporate Social Responsibility: New Challenges and Directions for PCSR 2.0” (2016) 53:3 J Management Studies 273 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 See e.g. Blumberg, Phillip I & Strasser, Kurt A, The Law of Corporate Groups: Enterprise Liability in Commercial Relationships, Including Franchising, Licensing, Health Care Enterprises, Successor Liability, Lender Liability, and Inherent Agency (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 1998)Google Scholar. See also Buxbaum, Hannah L, “The Viability of Enterprise Jurisdiction: A Case Study of the Big Four Accounting Firms” (2015) 48 UC Davis L Rev 1769 Google Scholar.

6 See further Deva, Surya, “Human Rights Violations by Multinational Corporations and International Law: Where from Here?” (2003) 19 Conn J Intl L 1 Google Scholar.

7 See further Ratner, Steven R, “Corporations and Human Rights: A Theory of Legal Responsibility” (2001) 111:3 Yale LJ 443 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 See further Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte, “What Are Human Rights? Four Schools of Thought” (2010) 32 Hum Rts Q 1 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 Steinitz, supra note 2 at 123–26.

10 Ibid, ch 4. See also In re Union Carbide Corp Gas Plant Disaster, 809 F 2d 195 (US CA 2d Cir 1984); Aguinda v Texaco, 303 F 3d 470 (US CA 2d Cir 2002); Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum, 569 US 108 (2013).

11 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998, 2187 UNTS 3 (entered into force 1 July 2002).

12 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, 10 June 1958, 330 UNTS 3 (entered into force 7 June 1959).

13 2 July 2019, online: Hague Conference on Private International Law <https://assets.hcch.net/docs/806e290e-bbd8-413d-b15e-8e3e1bf1496d.pdf> (not yet in force).

14 United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, 20 December 2018, UN Doc A/RES/73/198, online: UNCITRAL <https://uncitral.un.org/sites/uncitral.un.org/files/singapore_convention_eng.pdf> (not yet in force).

15 See further Alter, Karen J, The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014)Google Scholar.

16 See e.g. Airia Brands v Air Canada, 2017 ONCA 792.

17 See e.g. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 16 December 1966, 999 UNTS 171, art 2(3) (entered into force 23 March 1976).