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Part I: On the Limits of Law and a Limitless Globalised Market -- 1. Introduction 1 -- 1. Meet Corporate Social Liability 1 -- 2. Why Corporate Social Liability? 1 -- 3. What Belongs to Corporate Social Liability? 1 -- 4. The Book's Approach and Methods 1 -- 5. Structure of the Book -- 2. Setting the Stage: Corporate Responsibility in Context 2 -- 1. The Corporate Responsibility Debate in its Historical Context 2 -- 2. Ideational Context: the Impact of the Washington Consensus 2.3 Economic Context: Centre, Semi-Periphery and Periphery of Global Value Chains 2 -- 4. Organisational Context: Global Value Chain Governance 2 -- 5. Social Context: CSR Standards for and within Global Value Chains 2 -- 6. The Advent of International Standards 2 -- 7. Many Shades of Voluntary Standards and Corporate Self-Regulation 2 -- 8. The Rise and Fall of CSR Concluding Remarks on Part I Part II: The Upshots of Corporate Responsibility and Obstacles to Corporate Liability -- 3. National Law: the Shades of Publicness of Private Regulation 3 -- 1. Corporate Law 3 -- 2. Tort Law and Contract Law 3 -- 3. Commercial Law -- 4. Post-national Law: Mandatory Disclosure, Environmental and Human Rights Due Diligence, and Supply Chain Liability 4 -- 1. Supranational Law 4 -- 2. International Law Concluding Remarks on Part II Part III: Corporate Liability in Theory and Practice: Recent Approaches and an Introduction to Corporate Social Liability -- 5. Corporate Liability in International Comparison 5 -- 1. Legislative Landscape 5 -- 2. Litigation Landscape -- 6. Analysis of Avenues for Corporate Social Liability in Global Value Chains 6 -- 1. Common Criteria for Founding Liability: an Overview 6 -- 2. Further Criteria for Founding Liability: Various Relevant Practices 6 -- 3. Conceptual Prospects for Corporate Social Liability in Global Value Chains Concluding Remarks on Part III Part IV -- . Pitfalls and Future of Corporate Social Liability in Global Value Chains -- 7. Liability through Judicialisa