Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours

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Surya Deva is an Associate Professor at the School of Law of the City University of Hong Kong and a Member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. Deva's primary research interests lie in business and human rights corporate social responsibility India-China constitutional law and sustainable development. He has published extensively in these areas and has previously advised UN bodies states multinational corporations and civil society organisations on such matters. He is one of the founding Editors-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal. David Bilchitz is a Professor of Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Law at the University of Johannesburg and Director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional Public Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC). He is the Secretary General of the International Association of Constitutional Law and was elected as a member of the South African Young Academy of Science. He has written extensively in the field of business and human rights and in 2013 he co-edited Human Rights Obligations of Business (Cambridge) with Surya Deva.