2021 Reports

投资者与国家纠纷解决中企业社会责任的实现

Ishikawa, Tomoko

Despite its oft-claimed voluntary nature, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has increasingly interacted and been integrated with legal obligations, and circumstances have arisen wherein a corporation’s breach of CSR has caused legal responsibility. This Perspective discusses host countries’ options for pursuing an investor’s CSR-based responsibility through counterclaims in investor-state dispute settlement.