Publications

Books

Incorporating Rights: Strategies to Advance Corporate Accountability (Oxford University Press 2021)

Academic Articles and Book Chapters

2023

Finance, Investors and Human Rights, in Teaching Business and Human Rights (Anthony Ewing, ed.) (with Ariel Meyerstein) (forthcoming 2023)

2022

Bias and Biometrics: Regulating Corporate Responsibility and New Technologies to Protect Rights, 12 Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law 1 (2022)

Book Review of Beate Sjåfjell and Irene Lynch Fanon (eds.), Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change (Cambridge University Press 2018) 7 Business and Human Rights Journal 329 (2022).

2021

Murray, K. and George, E., Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Intellectual Property Opinions (Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dodd & Elena Marty-Nelson, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Racism as a Human Rights Risk: Reconsidering the Corporate ‘Responsibility to Respect’ Rights, 6 Business and Human Rights Journal 576–583 (2021) (with Tara Van Ho and Jenna Martin).

Reckoning: A Dialogue About Racism, Antiracists, and Business and Human Rights, 30 Wash. Int’l L.J. 171 (2021).

Transformation Through Transparency: Human Rights and Corporate Responsibilities

in the Global Food System, in Power, Participation, and Private Regulatory Initiatives: Human Rights Under Supply Chain Capitalism (Daniel Brinks, Julia Dehm, Karen Engle, and Kate Taylor eds.) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

2020

Ranking for Good?: A Comparative Assessment of the Performance of French Corporations in Human Rights Rankings, 53 The International Lawyer 21 (2020) (with David Restrepo Amariles)

2019

Shareholder Activism and Stakeholder Engagement Strategies: Promoting Environmental Justice, Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals, 36 Wisconsin International Law Journal 298 (2019)

2018

Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Media Corporations: Promoting Human Rights Through Rankings, Self-Regulation and Shareholder Resolutions 28 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 521 (2018) 

Bringing Human Rights into Bilateral Investment Treaties: South Africa’s Alternative Approach to International Investment Disputes, 27 Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems 403 (2018)

2017

The Story of Environmental Justice and Race in the United States: International Human Rights and Equal Environmental Protection in Human Rights and Legal Judgements: The American Story (Cambridge University Press, Austin Sarat (ed.) 2017)

Access to Remedy: Treaty Talks and the Terms of a New Accountability Accord in Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours (Cambridge University Press, Surya Deva & David Bilchitz (eds.) 2017)

Recognizing Women’s Rights at Work: Health and Women Workers in Global Supply Chains, 35 Berkeley Journal of International Law 1 (2017) (Article with David Wofford, Candace Gibson & Rebecca Sewall)

2016

International Human Rights: Legal Political and Policy Frameworks Applicable to the Extractive Industries, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (2016)

FDA’s Troubling Failures to Use Its Authority to Regulate Genetically Modified Foods, 71 Georgetown Food & Drug Law Journal 105 (2016) (Article with Leslie Francis & Robin Craig)

2015

The Enterprise of Empire: Evolving Understandings of Corporate Identity and Responsibility in The Business and Human Rights Landscape: Moving Forward, Looking Back (Cambridge University Press, Jena Martin & Karen Bravo, (eds.) 2015)

Expanding the Array of Accountable Actors: Human Rights and Corporate Responsibility, 109 American Society of International Law Proceedings 246 (2015)

2014

Child Labor in African Agriculture and the Challenge of Changing Practices in the Cocoa Industry 21 U. C. Davis J. Int’l L & Pol’y 59 (2014)

The Challenge of Climate Change and the Contribution of African Women to Engender International Environmental Law, in Black Women and International Law (Cambridge University Press, Jeremy I. Levitt (ed.) 2014)

In Good Company: How Corporate Social Responsibility Can Protect Rights and Aid Efforts to End Child Sex Trafficking and Modern Slavery, 46 New York University Journal of International Law and Policy 55 (2014)

Influencing the Impact of Business on Human Rights: Corporate Social Responsibility Through Transparency and Reporting in Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Impacts: New Expectations and Paradigms (American Bar Association, Lara Blecher, Nancy Kaymar-Stafford & Gretchen Bellamy (eds.) 2014)  

2013

Incorporating Rights: Empire, Global Enterprise and Global Justice, 10 U. St. Thomas L.J. 917 (2013)

Global Health and Human Rights, 24 European Journal of International Law 1252 (Book Review) (2013)

Feminism and the Future of African International Legal Scholarship, 107 American Society of International Law Proceedings 192 (2013)

2011

Tweeting to Topple Tyranny, Social Media and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Reply to Anupam Chander, 2 California Law Review (Circuit) 23 (2011)

The Human Right to Health and HIV/AIDS: South Africa and South-South Cooperation to Reframe Global Intellectual Property Principles and Promote Access to Essential Medicines, 18 Indiana Journal Global Legal Studies 167 (2011)

2010

International Law and African Judiciaries: The Example of South Africa, 104 American Society of International Law Proceedings 329 (2010)

See No Evil? Revisiting Early Visions of the Social Responsibility of Business: Adolf A. Berle’s Contribution to Contemporary Conversations, 33 Seattle University Law Review 965 (2010)

Gender and Globalization: Engendering Social and Environmental Justice by Globalizing Women’s Human Rights in Globalization and the Quest for Social and Environmental Justice: The Relevance of International Law in an Evolving World Order (The Routledge-Cavendish Taylor & Francis Group Shawkat Alam, Natalie Klein & Juliette Overland eds. 2010)

2009

Corporate Liability for Human Rights Crimes in CRIMINAL JURISDICTION 100 YEARS AFTER THE 1907 HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE (T.M.C. Asser Press/Cambridge University Press, W.M. van Genugten & Michael P. Scharf eds., 2009)

2008

Virginity Testing and South Africa’s HIV/AIDS Crisis: Beyond Rights Universalism and Cultural Relativism Towards Health Security, 96 California Law Review 1447 (2008)

2007

The Place of the Private Transnational Actor in International Law: Human Rights Norms, Development Aims and Understanding Corporate Self-Regulation As Soft Law, American Society of International law Proceedings (2007)

After Atrocity, Examples from Africa: The Right to Education and the Role of Law in Restoration, Recovery and Accountability, Loyola University of Chicago International Law Review (2007)

The Protection of the Right to Education by International Law By Klaus Dieter, Global Law Books (2007) (book review)

2006

Unprotected Migrants: Zimbabweans in South Africa’s Limpopo Province (with Norma Kriger) Human Rights Watch (2006)

Failing the Future: Development Objectives, Human Rights Obligations and Gender Violence in Schools in Combating Gender Violence in and around Schools (Trentham Books, Fiona Leach & Claudia Mitchell, eds., 2006)

2005

Instructions in Inequality: Development, Human Rights, Capabilities and Gender Violence in Schools, 26 Michigan Journal of International Law 4 (2005)

Scared at School: Sexual Violence Against Girls in South African Schools

2001

Human Rights Watch (2001)

1998

State Oil v. Khan, 36 ISBA Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law, May (1998) (co-author with John J. Hamill)

1995

The Fourth Amendment's Forcing of Flawed Choices: Giving Content to Freedom for Residents of Public Housing 30 Harv.  C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 577 (1995) (case comment)

1994

Words as Weapons: Naming the Harm of Racist Speech, 11 Harv.  BlackLetter J. 221 (1994) (book review)

1993

Needling the System: Welfare Agency Approaches to Preschool Immunization, Center for Law and Social Policy (1993)

Essays and Editorials

2018

Human Rights, For Everyone, Everywhere, Salt Lake Tribune (December 2018)

How to Get Away with Genocide, Salt Lake Tribune (May 2018)

2017

Court Ruling Voiding ‘AgGag’ Law Gets it Right, Salt Lake Tribune (July 2017)

2016

Lesson of Standing Rock Is Indigenous People Should Be Included, Salt Lake Tribune (October 2016)

2009

A Prescription for Development: Curing What Ails Foreign Aid to Africa, G8 Magazine Summit 2009 (July 2009)

2004

A Black Lawyer’s Reflections on the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Ed., Utah Bar Journal (May 2004)