Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal articles

Recent articles from Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal

Laws and codes for the resource curse.
January 1, 2008... The international community assigns a high priority to helping impoverished societies, yet its efforts are currently lopsided. While it spends around U.S. $ 100 billion on aid and provides over 100,000 UN peacekeepers, to date it has largely neglected the potential of international codes and...

Paul Collier, laws and codes for the 'resource curse'.(reply to article in this issue, p. 9)
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION Paul Collier's proposition that current commodity booms are the single most important issue for the bottom billion is compelling. His framework for a regime of international law and codes to govern commodity booms is worthy of careful consideration by the international...

Extracting accountability: the implications of the resource curse for CSR theory and practice.(corporate social responsibility)
January 1, 2008... While corporate social responsibility (CSR) is important to economic development and baseline human rights in countries dependent on extractive industry revenues, failures in governance--such as the absence of basic services like health care and electricity--require new strategies and...

Matthew Genasci & Sarah Pray, extracting accountability: implications of the resource curse for CSR theory and practice. (corporate social responsibility) (reply to article in this issue, p. 37)
January 1, 2008... Matthew Genasci and Sarah Pray argue that the best cure for the "resource curse" in developing nations is increased transparency through compliance with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). (1) This argument is composed of two distinct claims. First, Genasci and Pray...

Out of the conflict zone: the case for community consent processes in the extractive sector.
January 1, 2008... An examination of contemporary struggles over extractive industry projects shows that they are not adequately captured by current CSR strategies because they are not exclusively disputes about the environment, human rights or health and safety as those subjects are generally understood by...