2018 Deakin Law Oration: Human Rights and Good Corporate Citizenship

Big pharma and good corporate citizenship.

Performing dignity: Human rights, citizenship, and the technopolitics of law in South Africa

Since the end of apartheid, rights-based languages of human dignity have often been central to articulating state obligation and making claims on the state in South Africa. In this article, I explore this moral–legal politics by focusing on a legal case brought against the City of Johannesburg by five Soweto residents on the basis of their constitutionally guaranteed right to water. Examining t...

Moral law and human rights.

HE purpose of this paper is to examine some of the basic terms in the discussion of 1 the theme of this symposium on 'Ethics and the practice of medicine'. These terms can be grouped under the headings of moral law and human rights; for if these two terms are defined a great many of the principles, whose application to medical practice is in question, will have been examined. A general paper li...

Coronavirus Pandemic; From Human Rights Considerations to Citizenship Requirements

Coronavirus pandemic as a global health challenge, has had many political, economic, legal, social and cultural consequences in the realm of national societies and internationally. The most important concerns in the legal field are the human rights situation in the international system and civil rights in the field of national systems. These concerns are mainly related to the restriction of the...

Humiliation, Human Rights, and Global Corporate Responsibility

This article starts out from the suggestion that global social policy would benefit from more corporate awareness of the necessity of their responsible involvement. The typical response to such a proposition is that the corporate sector is not interested in charity, but in earning money. This paper suggests that the corporate sector has, in fact, an interest in incorporating more social respons...