With burgeoning legislation, investor pressure, and consumer demand, responsible and sustainable supply chains are a high priority. This practical and comprehensive guide is essential for all businesses and counsel who want to reduce adverse human rights impacts and environmental risks in their supply chains. The panel of authors, including leading practitioners and prominent scholars, has come together to build an effective and balanced structure to protect the environment and the human rights of workers.

Containing the Model Contract Clauses (MCCs) from the ABA Business Law Section's working group, this unique book is much more than an explanation of model contract clauses. It is a tool that will help companies and their counsel implement healthy corporate policies in a way that is legally effective and operationally likely and can help reduce disruption in the supply chain.

The book is divided into three sections: MCCs, legal analysis, and practical perspectives. It includes:

• MCCs and explanatory annotations so counsel can make informed decisions
• An overview of the MCCs: their genesis and development, strategies and choices, legal underpinnings and drafting alternatives, current use, and likely future
• Perspectives of authors from large and small law firms, in-house counsel, academia, NGOs, civil society, and labor
• Chapters on legal issues from antitrust, commercial law, and corporate law to US international trade law as well as foreign law that reaches US companies