Human rights as standards for transnational economic law

该项目分析国际人权对跨国经济法的影响。跨国经济法包括与国际经济交易有关的源于国家和国际的私法和公法规则。它包括具有约束力的规则以及正式的非约束性标准。一方面，该项目力求评估人权标准在当代跨国经济法中已经存在的程度和方式。另一方面，该项目将指出人权的影响在哪些方面仍然缺失，以及如何改变这种状况。该项目追求三个主要目标：第一，它力求通过研究迄今为止尚未成为人权和跨国经济法研究中心的领域、文书和治理层次，补充和深化现有研究。第二，该项目的成果将用于进一步发展一般国际法和人权理论。第三，该项目旨在取得成果，并提出解决与法律的和政治实践有关的问题的办法，从而有助于切实改善国际人权保护，该项目包括四个具体的分析领域：第一，分析跨国原材料法的人权方面。特别是，它将被问到如何将人权作为跨国原材料法的标准。第二，该项目评估了2011年版经合组织《多国企业准则》，其中载有关于人权的专门一章。将对本章进行分析和评估。此外，该项目还评估了经合组织准则国家联络点在使用人权论点方面的做法。其次，从国内法的角度分析了跨国公司的侵权责任。这包括根据《外国人侵权法》以及欧盟和德国法律发展判例。 最后，该项目评估了所谓的鲁格后进程在国家和国际一级的执行情况。特别是，德国的进程将是该项目的一个具体重点。

The project analyses the impact of international human rights on transnational economic law. Transnational economic law encompasses private and public law rules of national and international origin which relate to international economic transactions. It includes binding rules as well as formally non-binding standards. On the one hand, the project seeks to assess to which extent and in which way human rights standards already exist in contemporary transnational economic law. One the other hand, the project will indicate where the impact of human rights is still missing and how this can be changed. The project pursues three main objectives: First, it seeks to supplement and deepen existing research through the study of areas, instruments and governance layers which have not been at the centre of the research concerning human rights and transnational economic law until now. Second, the project's results will be used to further develop general international law and human rights theory. Third, the project aims to deliver results and propose solutions for problems which are of relevance for legal and political practice and therefore contribute to practical improvements of the international protection of human rights.The project consists of four concrete fields of analysis: First, human rights aspects of the transnational law of raw materials shall be analysed. In particular, it will be asked how human rights can be concterised as standards for transnational raw material law. Second, the project assesses the 2011 version of the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises, which contain a specific chapter on human rights. This chapter will be analysed and assessed. In addition, the project assesses the practice of the national contact points of the OECD Guidelines concerning their use of human rights arguments. Next, the project analyses tortious liability for transnational enterprises on the basis of national law. This includes the development of the jurisprudence under the Alien Tort Statute as well as EU and German law. Finally, the project assesses the implementation of the so called Post-Ruggie process at the national and international level. In particular the German process will be of a specific focus for the project.