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22 Dec 2014

Author:
Larry Catá Backer, Penn State Law

Commentary on UN Forum: "Reason and Clarity in Business and Human Rights: John Ruggie's Closing Plenary Remarks Delivered at the 3rd U.N. Forum"

Professor Ruggie's Closing Plenary Remarks to the 3rd Annual Forum are well worth reading as one of the best descriptions of the value of the UNGP's going forward, the role of treaties in that context, and the contradictions of the current movement toward a comprehensive treaty.  The Remarks offers analysis and compassion in lieu of gesture and evidences so well the application of principled pragmatism that made the UNGP possible and that might better assure its future course.