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“Corporate Social Responsibility” Unmasked

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Terry Collingsworth*
Affiliation:
International Labor Rights Fund

Abstract

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Type
The Chameleon of Corporate Social Responsibility: Changing Shapes and Challenges
Copyright
Copyright© The American Society of International Law 2005

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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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13 Code of Conduct, www.unocal.com.

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