Corporate Law

This text provides an overview of corporate liability and accountability with regard to criminal and regulatory laws and offences that apply to Canadian corporations.

This book explores the deepening connections between corporations and the public. It explores timely - and often controversial - public issues with which corporations must grapple including the corporate purpose, civil and criminal liability, taxation, human rights, the environment and corruption.

This book examines all international sources of corporate accountability standards with specific reference to environmental protection, and elaborates on their theoretical and practical implications for international environmental law.

James-Eluyode provides a comprehensive analysis of critical human rights developments and topical issues and trends in corporate social responsibility practices through examining how corporate entities fulfill their responsibility to respect human rights in general and indigenous peoples’ rights in particular.

This book examines the hard and soft laws that ground corporate social responsibility and answers the four essential questions: What is CSR? What is driving it? What are the legal dimensions of CSR? What are its likely future legal developments? In addition, it also address key issues with common-law examples from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, as well as European Union law and developments in Asia, Africa and Latin America.