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2017 Wis. L. Rev. 641 (2017)
Business, Corruption, and Human Rights: Towards a New Responsibility for Corporations to Combat Corruption

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    BUSINESS,   CORRUPTION, AND HUMAN RIGHTS:
        TOWARDS A NEW RESPONSIBILITY FOR
      CORPORATIONS TO COMBAT CORRUPTION

                         DAVID  HESS*
Introduction     ...................................   ......642
I. Business and Human Rights..     ..........................646
      A. The Evolution of Soft Law Standards on BHR ..............648
II. Business and Corruption           .........................652
      A. Criminal Law Enforcement     ........................653
          1. Enforcement under the FCPA   ....................653
          2. Criminalizing the Payment of Bribes: A Worldwide
             Movement     ........................  .......655
      B. Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives...... ......657
Ill. Corruption and Human Rights........................660
IV. Business, Corruption, and Human Rights .....   ...........664
      A. Business, Corruption, and Human Rights in the Ready
          Made Garment Industry.    ........................665
          1. Root Causes of Human Rights Violations.... .....665
          2. Supply Chain Compliance Audits: Corruption as a
             Barrier to Solutions................     ........667
      B. The Problem of Business and Human Trafficking ...........670
V. Towards a New Responsibility to Combat Corruption..............674
      A. Improving Compliance Programs through a Human
          Rights Perspective on Corruption ......... .........674
          1. Compliance Programs: The Need for Improvement.... 674
          2. Changing the Motivation to Combat Corruption:
             Business, Corruption, and Human Rights...............677
      B. Expanding the Responsibility to Combat Corruption........681
          1. Structural Injustice and the Social Connection Model
             of Responsibility .......................681
          2. Differences from a Liability Model ...... ........683
          3. Fulfilling the Shared Responsibility to Combat
             Corruption: Political Corporate Social
             Responsibility ...................      .........685
             a. Responsiveness     ..........................688
             b. Collaboration (Collective Action).. ..........689
             c. Publicness/Transparency  ...................692
Conclusion....................................693


*   Associate Professor of Business Law, University of Michigan.

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