The Ruggie principles have given new impulse to the process of developing and modernizing International Lawthrough the influence of human rights. However, this process has been developed as “soft law” measuresincluded in the corporate social responsibility activities of multinational companies, which academic opiniondeems has lessened the capacity of human rights for transforming international law into more effective and trulybinding instruments to avoid abuses against human dignity. This issue has prompted a debate concerning the roleof multinationals as subjects of international law, and the advisability of returning to more traditional andconservative approaches to governance of globalization and to effective protection of human rights from riskybusiness activities. However, thanks to Common Law traditions, this model may be transformed into binding rules,using the legal tools of private Law. This reveals the utility of such soft Law regulations in creating cultures ofrespect useful when rule of law is weak to rule relations between states, companies and people, that arise fromthe actions of private individuals rather than the activity of public law-making institutions.

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全球化中保护人权的新手段

鲁奇原则通过人权的影响为国际法的发展和现代化进程提供了新的动力。但是，这一过程已发展成为跨国公司的企业社会责任活动中所包括的“软法”措施，学术观点认为，这种措施削弱了人权将国际法转变为更有效和真正具有约束力的文书以避免滥用人的尊严的能力。这个问题引发了关于跨国公司作为国际法主体的作用的辩论，以及是否有必要回到更传统和保守的方法来治理全球化和有效地保护人权免受危险的商业活动之害。但是，由于英美法系的传统，使用私法的法律工具，可以将该模型转换为具有约束力的规则。这揭示了这种软的法律法规在建立尊重文化时的效用，这种文化在法治对国家，公司和人民之间关系的统治较弱时产生，这种尊重源于私人的行为而不是公共立法机构的活动。