SWFs and human rights protection

Salar Ghahramani

Chapter 11 in Research Handbook on Sovereign Wealth Funds and International Investment Law, 2015, pp 321-332 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines how sovereign wealth funds may pursue human rights principles through shareholder activism and explores the complicity and due diligence notions of SWFs under international norms. The chapter also investigates whether the standard of care should be the same or different from the highest standard utilized by state-owned enterprises and addresses the concept of ‘double contradiction’ in SWF activities: the potential conflict between pursuing rights-based objectives versus profit maximization. Positing that SWFs are state actors, the chapter concludes that the state’s legal obligations under international law must clearly trump the profit mandates of its SWFs.

Keywords: Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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