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Public procurement and human rights: current role and potential of voluntary sustainability standards

Corporations, Globalisation and the Law series

Axel Marx

This chapter engages with the debate on the role of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) in public procurement. The main argument is that they can play an important role in fostering compliance with human rights in global supply chains, but can only do that for a specific set of (labour) rights. The chapter first discusses how VSS currently feature in public procurement. Next the chapter focuses on how VSS operate and why they are potentially relevant instruments to implement the protection of human rights through supply chains. The third part focuses on the intersection of VSS and human rights in the context of public procurement.

Monograph Chapter

Cover Public Procurement and Human Rights

In Public Procurement and Human Rights

Edited by Olga Martin-Ortega and Claire Methven O’Brien

Published:: 31 May 2019

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788116312.00017

Collection: Law 2019

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Global Governance and the Certification Revolution: Types, Trends and Challenges

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Axel Marx

Handbook Chapter

Cover Handbook on the Politics of Regulation

In Handbook on the Politics of Regulation

Edited by David Levi-Faur

Published in print:: 30 Nov 2011

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857936110.00062

Collection: Social And Political Science 2011

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Global Governance

Elgar Research Reviews in Law

Axel Marx and Jan Wouters

Global governance emerged as a concept more than two decades ago. Despite its relevance to key processes underlying the major public policy questions of our age, the contours of 'global governance' remain contested and elusive. This Research Review seeks to clarify key trends and challenges in global governance by bringing together the leading scholarship on its different forms. The Literature Review Article discusses key issues in relation to global governance institutions: democracy, legitimacy, accountability, fragmentation, effectiveness and dispute settlement.