Tara Van Ho

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Publications

Books (Edited collections)

• When Business Harms Human Rights: Affected Communities that Are Dying to be Heard (Anthem Press, 2020), co-editor with Jena Martin and Karen Bravo
• Human Rights and Business: Direct Corporate Accountability for Human Rights (Wolf Legal Publishers, 2015), co-editor with Jernej Letnar Cernic

Peer-Reviewed or Refereed Journal Articles (Solo-authored)

• “Angels, Virgins, Demons, Whores: Moving Towards an Antiracist Praxis by Confronting Modern Investment Law Scholarship,” 23 Journal of World Investment & Trade 347-387 (2022). Lead article.
• “Defining the Relationships: ‘Cause, Contribute, and Directly Linked to’ in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,” 43 Human Rights Quarterly 625-658 (2021). Lead article.
• “Is it Already Too Late for Colombia’s Land Restitution Process? The Impact of International Investment Law on Transitional Justice Initiatives,” 5(1) International Human Rights Law Review 60-85 (2016).

Peer-Reviewed or Refereed Journal Articles (Co-authored)

• “Addressing (In)Equality in Redress: Human Rights-Led Reform of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism,” 24 Journal of World Investment & Trade 398-436 (2023). With Surya Deva.
• “Reckoning: A Dialogue about Racism, AntiRacists, and Business & Human Rights,” 30 Washington International Law Journal 1 (2021). With Erika George and Jena Martin. Lead article.
• “Assessing the Duty of Care for Social Auditors,” 27 European Review of Private Law 379-401 (2019). With Carolijn Terwindt.
• “Problems with Applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the Mutual Fund Industry,” 18 Human Rights Law Review 1-29 (2018). With Mohammed K. Alshaleel. Lead article.
• “A Tribute to Professor Sir Nigel Rodley, KBE: Reflections on 50 Years of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” 35(3) Nordic Journal of Human Rights 173-185 (2017). With Lauren Neumann.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• “Insolvency Law through the Lens of Human Rights Theories,” in Re-Examining Insolvency Law and Theory: Perspectives for the 21st Century (Emilie Ghio, et al., eds.) (Elgar, 2024). With Eugenio Vaccari.
• “Obligations of International Assistance and Cooperation in the Context of Investment Law,” in Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations (Mark Gibney, et al., eds.). 325- 338 (Routledge, 2021).
• “Business and Human Rights in Transitional Justice,” in Research Handbook on Business and Human Rights 379-401 (Surya Deva and David Birchall, eds.) (Elgar, 2020).
• “Community Interrupted, ‘Life Projects’ Disrupted: Cajamarca, Ibagué and the La Colosa Mine in Colombia,” in When Business Harms Human Rights: Affected Communities Dying to be Heard (Jena Martin, et al., eds.) 109-136 (Anthem Press, 2020).
• “The Fukushima Diaspora: Assessing the State-Based Non-Judicial Remedies,” in Civil and Political Rights in Japan: A Tribute to Sir Nigel Rodley (Saul Takahashi, ed.) 112-127 (Routledge, 2019).
• “The Duty to Prosecute and the Role of Victims’ Rights,” in Beyond the Binary: Securing Peace and Promoting Justice after Conflict (Camilo Sanchez and Rodrigo Uprimny, eds.) 130-152 (Dejustica, 2019).
• ” ‘Band-Aids Don’t Fix Bullet Holes’: In Defense of a Traditional State-Centric Approach,” in The Future of Business and Human Rights: Theoretical Challenges for a UN Treaty” (Nicolás Carillo-Santarelli and Jernej Letnar Černič, eds.) 111-138 (Intersertia, 2018).
• “Integrating Human Rights into the Extractive Industries: How Investment Contracts Can Achieve Protection,” in Natural Resources Grabbing: An International Law Perspective (Francesca Romanin Jacur, et al., eds) 223-244 (Brill, 2015). With Anil Yilmaz-Vastardis.
• “ ‘Due Diligence’ in Transitional Justice States: An Obligation for Greater Transparency,” in Direct Human Rights Obligations of Corporations (Jernej Letnar Cernic & Tara Van Ho, eds.) 229-250 (Wolf Legal Publishers, 2015).
• “Transnational Civil and Criminal Litigation,” in Corporate Accountability in the Context of Transitional Justice 52-72 (Sabine Michalowski, ed.) (Routledge, 2013).

Case Notes, Introductions, Editorial Notes, Comments and Book Reviews

• “’Cancelling’ Carl Schmitt is Overdue,” (2021) 32 European Journal of International Law 730-731.
• “Vedanta Resources Plc and Another v. Lungowe and Others,” 114 American Journal of International Law 110-116 (2020).
• “Accountability: A Discussion,” in COVID-19, Law and Human Rights: Essex Dialogues. A Project of the School of Law and Human Rights Centre 309- 310 (Carla Ferstman and Andrew Fagan, eds.) (2020). With Antonio Coco, Panagiota Kotzamani, and Megan Wong.
• “General Comment No. 24 (2017) on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities (CESCR),” 58 International Legal Materials 872-889 (2019).
• “Gilles Giacca, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Armed Conflict, Book Review,” 16 Human Rights Law Review 187-192 (2016).
• “Special Issue: ‘Interaction between Human Rights: 50 years of the Covenants,” 35(3) Nordic Journal of Human Rights 171-172 (2017). With Fenella Billing, Lauren Neumann, Louise Halleskov Storgaard, Nikolas Feith Tan, and Jens Vedsted-Hansen.
• “Introduction,” Direct Human Rights Obligations of Corporations (Jernej Letnar Cernic & Tara Van Ho, eds.) 1-24 (Wolf Legal Publishers, 2015).
• “Dale Farm: An Update,” (2011) 4 The Holocaust in History and Memory 133-140.
• “Reconstructing the Marriage of Ownership and Control: Is the SEC Missing an Important Step in its Hesitancy to Adopt Proposed Rule 14a-11?,” Comment, 73 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1211-1242 (2005).