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“Corporate Social Responsibility” Unmasked

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Terry Collingsworth
Terry Collingsworth*
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International Labor Rights Fund
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The Chameleon of Corporate Social Responsibility: Changing Shapes and Challenges
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 99: Proceedings ofthe ninety nine Annual Meeting of the AmericanSociety of International Law , 2005 , pp. 258 - 265
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Copyright© The American Society of International Law 2005

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7 Senate Rep. No. 95-114, 1977 WL 16144 at *3-4 (May 2, 1977).

8 Id. at *4

9 See, e.g., Estate of Rodriquez v. Drummond Co., Inc., 256 F.Supp. 2d 1250, 1267 (N.D. Ala. 2003) (rejecting defendants’ argument that the TVPA by its plain language applies only to “ individual” defendants, not corporate entities); Sinatrainal v. Coca-Cola Co., 256 F.Supp. 2d 1345, 1358-59 (S.D. Fla. 2003) (also rejecting defendant's argument that it as a corporation should not be liable to suit under the TVPA).

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12 Corporate Citizenship Report, www.exxonmobil.com.

13 Code of Conduct, www.unocal.com.

14 See generally, Sethi, Prakash Setting Global Standards: Guidelines for Creating Codes of Conduct for Multinational Corporations (2003) (noting the economic incentive for companies to market themselves as socially responsible, but criticizing the general practice by multinationals of failing take their public commitments seriously).Google Scholar