Creating International Legal Accountability for Corporate Human Right Abuses
AYŞE ELİF YILDIRIM CREATING INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR CORPORATE HUMAN RIGHT ABUSES Final Thesis to obtain the degree of Doctor of Law with the specialty in Public International Law Supervisor: Professor Doutor André Ventura, Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa December 2019 DECLARATION OF ANTI-PLAGIARISM In accordance with Article 8 of Regulamento do 3º Ciclo de Estudos Conducente ao Grau de Doutor em Direito, I solemnly declare that I am the exclusive author of the work hereby presented, the content of which is original. I further declare that all external sources and citations used for this work are duly referred and identified. I also understand that the use of non-identified external elements within an academic work amounts to a serious ethical and disciplinary breach. Ayşe Elif Yıldırım 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to thank Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculty of Law for giving me a place at the faculty to pursue this doctoral research and Fundação a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) for financially supporting me. Secondly, I would like to thank my supervisor, Prof. André Ventura, who was out of ordinary. I feel really lucky that he took a leap of faith in this project, pursued the role of supervision and allowed me to find my own voice during the process. I genuinely believe I could not have asked for a better supervisor and I believe this project would not be the same without his guidance. Thirdly, I would like to thank Prof. Jeremy Sarkin for providing me with very useful commentary on writing and Prof.
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