"Should business and human rights disputes be arbitrated?", 18 oct. 2018

Angeline Welsh speaks to Richard Hermer QC and Julianne Hughes-Jennett about their predictions for business and human rights disputes and the role arbitration should play.

[Julianne Hughes-Jennett who debates the soft-law dimension of the John Ruggie Guiding Principles] when "there has been this incremental walk..towards some hardening human rights liability for corporations...[which represents] a very complex shifting multi-jurisdictional landscape that businesses need to navigate."...

[Richard Hermer talks about positive effects on corporate behaviour and states] and the role that litigation plays "in regulating what multinational corporations can do when regulating the human rights of others."... However, he believes that arbitration is the "is always the second best choice."...