Thank you, Professor Simons, for coming to speak with us.
I'd like to start with your book, The Governance Gap, which makes this conclusion:
...legal and other non-binding governance mechanisms...are incapable of systematically preventing human rights violating behaviour by transnational corporations, or of assuring accountability of these actors or recompense for victims of such violations.
It also contends that “home state regulation...has a crucial role to play in regulating such conduct.”
Would you say that this applies very well in the case of the CORE? If so, how would this apply to the CORE?