John Ruggie

Berthold Beitz Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government

Research Interests

• Impact of Globalization on Global Rule Making and the Evolving Global Political Order

Appointments

• Faculty Chair, Kennedy School Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative
• Senior Advisor, Corporate Social Responsibility Practice, Foley Hoag LLP
• Berthold Beitz Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2005-
• Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights, 2005-2011

Representative Publications

• Ruggie, John. "Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework" (2011).
  (UN Document A/HRC/17/31 (21 March 2011) with Addendum 1: "Piloting principles for effective company/stakeholder grievance mechanisms: A report of lessons learned." A/HRC/17/31/Add. 1 (24 May 2011); Addendum 2: "Human rights and corporate law: trends and observations from a crossnational study conducted by the Special Representative," A/HRC/17/31/Add. 2 (23 May 2011); and Addendum 3: "Principles for responsible contracts: integrating the management of human rights risks into State-investor contract negotiations: guidance for negotiators," A/HRC17/31/Add. 3)
  
• Ruggie, John. "Protect, Respect and Remedy: The UN Framework for Business and Human Rights" in International Human Rights Law: Six Decades after the UDHR and Beyond (Mashood A. Baderin & Manisul Ssenyonjo eds., Ashgate, 2010).
  
• Ruggie, John. "Protect, Respect and Remedy: A Framework for Business and Human Rights" (2008).
  (UN Document A/HRC/8/5 (7 April 2008); plus 2 addenda)
  
• Ruggie, John. "Clarifying the Concepts of 'Sphere of influence' and 'Corporate Complicity': Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises" (2008).
  (UN Document A/HRC/8/16 (15 May 2008))
  
• Ruggie, John. Winning the Peace: America and World Order in the New Era (Columbia University Press 2006).
  
• Ruggie, John. "The Theory and Practice of Learning Networks" in Learning to Talk: Corporate Citizenship and the Development of the UN Global Compact (Malcolm McIntosh, Sandra Waddock & Georg Kell eds., Greenleaf Press, 2004).
  
• Ruggie, John. "Reconstituting the Global Public Domain-Issues, Actors, and Practices," 10 European Journal of International Relations 499 (2004).
  
• Ruggie, John. "Business and Human Rights: The Evolving International Agenda," 101 American Journal of International Law 819 (2004).
  
• Ruggie, John. Constructing the World Polity (Routledge Press 1998).
  

Bibliography

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