The Cambridge Handbook of Law and Responsible Business

A comprehensive legal analysis assessing how diverse regulatory strategies shape, govern, and transform sustainability challenges in global value chains.

This Handbook offers the first systematic analysis of how different areas of law address sustainability challenges in global value chains (GVCs). Combining theoretical insight with comparative legal analysis, it equips scholars, policymakers, and practitioners with essential tools to understand and influence responsible business conduct worldwide.This Handbook provides the first comprehensive examination of the legal strategies around the world shaping sustainability in global value chains. Bringing together leading scholars, it maps how diverse legal disciplines (including corporate law, labour law, tax law, tort law, private law, environmental law, international law and more) conceptualise and regulate the complex architectures of cross-border production. Through a unifying analytical framework, the book reveals how fragmented regulatory approaches can complement one another, and how legal tools may address the environmental, social, and economic challenges that global production networks create and sustain. Covering jurisdictions across the globe and engaging with emerging regulatory instruments such as due diligence laws, sustainability reporting obligations, climate transition plans, and international taxation initiatives, this Handbook offers an indispensable resource for academics, policymakers, practitioners, and students concerned with responsible business conduct and sustainable development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.