Descripción del proyecto
Creación de un marco jurídico para las cadenas de valor mundiales
La complejidad y fragilidad de las cadenas de valor mundiales (CVM) actuales, la dependencia que tiene de ellas la sociedad y sus desastrosos efectos sobre el trabajo, los derechos humanos y el medio ambiente exigen una regulación de las mismas. Sin embargo, su interrelación con distintos países dificulta el desarrollo de una normativa de esto tipo que incluya la asignación de responsabilidad por cualquier daño causado. En el proyecto CHAINLAW, financiado con fondos europeos, se asumirá la enorme tarea de crear un marco jurídico eficaz para las CVM. Su equipo investigará las normativas estatales, privadas y técnicas que configuran las CVM en la actualidad. Este marco permitirá a los Gobiernos administrar las CVM a través de un conjunto de leyes sociales, técnicas y formales. En conjunto, el trabajo en el marco del proyecto contribuirá sobremanera al desarrollo de unas CVM más responsables y transparentes.
Objetivo
CHAINLAW will develop a novel conceptual and normative legal language for Global Value Chains (GVCs). GVCs are the interconnected trade structures that underlie the production of commodities and offering of services. While GVCs have been intensively theorised in the social sciences, they are largely unknown as legal categories. This is highly problematic when the law is starting to legislate or decide cases about supply-chain responsibility.
The core aim of CHAINLAW is to provide the concepts necessary for law to be able to develop appropriate and effective legislation for GVCs and appropriate approaches to supply-chain liability. It will do so by a combination of theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, technical, and normative analysis on the law of GVCs. To that end, CHAINLAW is ground-breaking by employing, first, a novel theoretical framework based on institutional theory that that sets up a threefold typology of GVCs allowing their qualifications as part of the company, contracts, and as a network simultaneously. CHAINLAW engages, secondly, in a multi-disciplinary descriptive analysis that traces this institutional understanding within various regulatory layers that govern GVCs that include formal law, private and technological regulation in GVCs. It proposes an analysis of the law on GVCs that integrates (i) legal doctrinal analysis of company and contract law and the legal debate on networks, (ii) socio-legal research on private regulatory documents that are set up by companies, contracting parties and within the GVC network, and (iii) socio-technical analysis of supply-chain technologies, as used by companies, commercial parties, and in networked processes. Third, CHAINLAW uses these insights to develop a strategy for how the law can responsively govern GVCs, in private law including liability and public law intervention. Such responsive law needs to integrate the different institutional dimensions of GVCs and address the various regulatory layers in GVCs.
Ámbito científico
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
6200 MD Maastricht
Países Bajos