Complex multi-actors and multi-level governance structures have emerged in areas that were traditionally exclusively the preserve of the State and treaty-making. The adoption of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) affirmed a corporate responsibility to respect human rights to be implemented through human rights due diligence (HRDD), ie via management processes. The open-ended character of the UNGP generated the emergence of other soft instruments offering guidance to corporations in structuring HRDD. This contribution conceptualises the UNGP from the perspective of regulation as a principles-based exercise in polycentric governance reliant on regulatory intermediaries for interpretation. It then assesses the role of various sui generis normative instruments in providing interpretation to the UNGP and, how the presence of an additional layer of interpretative material contributes to the institutionalisation of responsible corporate conduct. The analysis of instruments drafted by international, non-governmental and business organisations reveals both a decentralising tension between different intermediaries due to disagreements and divergence concerning the precise extent of corporate human rights responsibilities, as well as attempts to centralise the interpretation of the UNGP. The article concludes by recommending some caution towards the employment of polycentric governance regimes and their lack of centralised interpretive authority in this domain of international law and suggests possible ways to formally establish centralised interpretation.

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国际法中的多中心性和复音：解读企业尊重人权的责任

在传统上完全由国家和条约制定的领域中出现了复杂的多行为体和多层次治理结构。联合国商业与人权指导原则 (UNGP) 的通过确认了企业有责任通过人权尽职调查 (HRDD) 即通过管理流程来实施尊重人权。UNGP 的开放性特征催生了其他软性工具的出现，为企业构建 HRDD 提供指导。这一贡献从监管的角度将 UNGP 概念化为多中心治理中基于原则的练习，依赖于监管中介进行解释。然后评估各种专门的规范性文书在向 UNGP 提供解释方面的作用，以及，额外一层解释性材料的存在如何有助于负责任的公司行为的制度化。对国际组织、非政府组织和商业组织起草的文书的分析表明，由于在公司人权责任的确切范围方面存在分歧和分歧，不同中介机构之间的分散紧张关系，以及对 UNGP 的集中解释的尝试。本文最后建议对采用多中心治理制度及其在这一国际法领域缺乏集中解释权的问题采取一些谨慎态度，并提出正式建立集中解释的可能方法。