Prof. Dr Nicolas Bueno

Publications

Publications

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See research outputs from the Centre for Law and Sustainable Economic Globalization

Books

Nicolas Bueno, Beryl ter Haar, Nuna Zekic (eds), Labour Law Utopias: Post-Growth and Post-Productive Approaches (Oxford University Press 2024), ISBN 9780198889755 (open access)

Bueno Nicolas, Le droit international de la démocratie et l’avenir des droits politiques (Berne, Paris: Staempfli, L.G.D.J. 2015) ISBN 978-3727231919

Scientific journal articles

Bueno N, Bernaz N, Holly G, Martin-Ortega O. The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD): The Final Political Compromise. Business and Human Rights Journal (2024) 1-7 (open access)

Nicolas Bueno, Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, Isidore Ngueuleu Djeuga, Investor Human Rights and Environmental Obligations: The Need to Redesign Corporate Social Responsibility Clauses, 24 Journal of World Investment & Trade (2023) 176 (open access)

Nicolas Bueno, From Productive Work to Capability-Enhancing Work: Implications for Labour Law and Policy, 23(3) Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (2022) 354-372 (open access)

Nicolas Bueno, Freedom at, through and from Work: Rethinking Labour Rights, 160 (2) International Labour Review (2021)  

Nicolas Bueno, Liberté au travail, par le travail et face au travail: comment repenser les droits du travail, 160 (2) Revue internationale du Travail (2021) 339-360

Nicolas Bueno and Christine Kaufmann, ‘The Swiss Due Diligence Legislation: Between Law and Politics’, 6(3) Business and Human Rights Journal (2021) 542-549 (open access)

Nicolas Bueno and Claire Bright, ‘Implementing Human Rights Due Diligence through Corporate Civil Liability’, 69(4) International & Comparative Law Quarterly (2020) 789-818.

Nicolas Bueno, Diligence en matière de droits de l’homme et responsabilité de l’entreprise : le point en droit suisse, 29 (3) Swiss Review of International and European Law (2019) 345-366.

Nicolas Bueno, Corporate Liability for Violations of the Human Right to Just Conditions of Work in Extraterritorial Operations, 21(5) The International Journal of Human Rights (2017) 565-588.

Nicolas Bueno, From the Right to Work to Freedom from Work: Introduction to the Human Economy 33(4) International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations (2017) 463-487  (Marco Biagi Best-Paper Award 2017 - International Association of Labour Law Journals Award)

Nicolas Bueno, La responsabilité des entreprises de respecter les droits de l’homme : État de la pratique Suisse, in Pratique Juridique Actuelle (PJA/AJP) (2017) 1015-1023.

Nicolas Bueno, Swiss Multinational Enterprises and Transnational Corruption: Management Matters, Swiss Review of Business and Financial Market Law (2017) 199-209.

Nicolas Bueno, L’analyse économique du droit international des traités, 116 Revue Générale de Droit International Public (2012) 86-106.

Nicolas Bueno, L’admission des prestataires de services étrangers: une approche nationale, bilatérale et multinationale, 66(2) Revue de droit administratif et fiscal (2010) 113-158.

Book chapters

Nicolas Bueno and Ingrid Landau, ‘Enforcing Workers’ Rights against State and Corporate Actors in International Law’, in Binder C, Hofbauer J, Piovesan F, Úbeda de Torres A (eds) Research Handbook on International Law and Social Rights (2nd edition, Edward Elgar, forthcoming).

Nicolas Bueno, ‘Das nachhaltige Unternehmen nach Schweizer Recht: Transparenzpflichten, Sorgfaltspflichten und Nachhaltigkeit, in Charlotte Sieber-Gasser, Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, Rika Koch (eds) Nachhaltige Entwicklung im Schweizer Recht (Staempfli 2025) 281-295.

Nicolas Bueno and Isidore Ngueuleu Djeuba, Civil Liability in the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: A 'Brussels Effect' on International Investment Law? In Ziegler, Canapa, Cardozo (eds) Business and Human Rights: Emerging Challenges, Issues, and Trends (Nijhoff 2024).

Nicolas Bueno, ‘The Value of Work in Labour Law’, in Nicolas Bueno, Beryl ter Haar, Nuna Zekic (eds), Labour Law Utopias: Post-Growth and Post-Productive Approaches (Oxford University Press 2024) (open access)

Nicolas Bueno, Beryl ter Haar and Nuna Zekic, ‘Labour Law Beyond Growth and Productivism: An Introduction’, in Nicolas Bueno, Beryl ter Haar, Nuna Zekic (eds), Labour Law Utopias: Post-Growth and Post-Productive Approaches (Oxford University Press 2024) (open access)

Claire Bright and Nicolas Bueno, ‘Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence’ in Anthony Ewing (ed), Teaching Business and Human Rights (Edward Elgar 2023) 144-159.

Nicolas Bueno et Federica de Rossa, Switzerland: The Underuse of Civil Remedies for Corporate and State Human Rights Violations, in Ekaterina Aristova and Uglješa Grušić (eds) Civil Remedies and Human Rights in Flux (Hart 2022) 311-330

Nicolas Bueno et Andrea Bonomi, Switzerland: Private International Law Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility, in Kessedjian and Cantú Rivera (eds), Private International Law Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility (Springer 2020) 573-593.

Nicolas Bueno, The Swiss Popular Initiative on Responsible Business: From Responsibility to Liability, in Liesbeth Enneking (ed.), Accountability, International Business Operations and the Law: Providing Justice for Corporate Human Rights Violations in Global Value Chains (Routledge 2019) 239-259.

Nicolas Bueno, Multinational Enterprises and Labour Rights: Concepts and Implementation, in Janice Bellace et al. (eds), Research Handbook on Labour, Business and Human Rights Law (Edward Elgar 2019) 421-438.

Nicolas Bueno, Die Zukunft der Arbeit als Freiheit von der Arbeit, in Jutta Allmendinger, Otfried Jarren, Christine Kaufmann, Hanspeter Kriesi, Dorotha Kübler (eds) Zeitenwende: Kurze Antworten auf grosse Fragen (Orell Füssli Verlag 2019).

Nicolas Bueno, Del derecho al trabajo a la libertad frente al trabajo: introducción a la economía humana, in Nuno Cerejeira Namora et al. (eds), The Balance between Worker Protection and Employer Powers (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2018) 167-200.

Nicolas Bueno, Entreprises multinationales et droits de l’homme: une question de minorité et de majorité, in Andreas Ziegler et Julie Kuffer (eds.), Minorities and the Law: Liber Amicorum for Professor Barbara Wilson (Zurich: Schulthess 2016) 191-204.

Andreas Ziegler et Nicolas Bueno, La protection constitutionnelle de l’orientation sexuelle, in Andreas Ziegler et al. (eds.), Droit LGBT (2^d ed., Bâle: Helbing Lichtenbahn 2015) 35-72.

Andreas Ziegler et Nicolas Bueno, Der verfassungsrechtliche Schutz von Lesben und Schwulen, in Andreas Ziegler et al. (eds.), LGBT-Recht (2^d ed., Bâle: Helbing Lichtenbahn 2015) 35-72.

Minh Son Nguyen, Cesla Amarelle Cesla et Nicolas Bueno, Droit des migrations, in F. Bohnet (ed.), Le droit pour le praticien 2008/2009 (Neuchâtel: Université de Neuchâtel 2009) 45-75.

Commentaries and Encyclopedia Entries

Nicolas Bueno, Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence, in Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer and Thomas Cottier (eds) Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law (Edward Elgar 2025, forthcoming)

Nicolas Bueno, ‘Labour Rights in EU External Trade Policy’, in Oxford Encyclopedia of European Law (Oxford University Press 2025, forthcoming)

Nicolas Bueno, ‘Article 24: The Right to Rest and to the Limitation of Working Hours’, in Humberto Cantu Rivera (ed.) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Commentary (Brill 2023) 566-587.

Nicolas Bueno and Yasmin Dinari, Art. 110 Cst : Travail, in: Stefan Schlegel and Odile Ammann (eds), Commentaire de la Constitution fédérale en ligne (2023) (Open Access)

Nicolas Bueno et Christine Kaufmann, Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, in Binder and Nowak (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Elgar 2022) 375-383, doi:10.4337/9781789903621.guiding.principles.business  

Nicolas Bueno, ‘Right to Work’, in Binder and Nowak (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Edward Elgar 2022) 578-583. 

Bueno Nicolas, Responsabilité pénale de l’entreprise: Commentaire de l’arrêt du Tribunal cantonal vaudois du 17.09.2013, forumpoenale (2014) 258-262.

Bueno Nicolas, Whether Switzerland was bound to apply U.N. Security Council sanctions against individuals associated with Osama bin Laden in a way that would violate human rights, Decision 1A 48/2007, Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (2012).

Bueno Nicolas, Whether Switzerland was bound to cause the transfer of financial assets of the previous government of Iraq in pursuance of U.N. Security Council resolutions in a way that would violate human rights, Decision 2A 783/2006, Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (2012).

Bueno Nicolas, Whether the fact that diplomats enjoyed immunity rendered testimonies in Swiss criminal proceedings inadmissible, X v North Korea and ors, No 6B 51/2007, Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (2011).

Legal Reports 

Nicolas Bueno, «Access to Remedy» und Kollektiver Rechtsschutz in der Schweiz: Status quo und Verbesserungsvorschläge (2024)

Nicolas Bueno “Access to Remedy” et droit d’action collective en Suisse : État des lieux et propositions d’améliorations (2024)

Nicolas Bueno and Sophie Scheidt, Die Sorgfaltspflichten von Unternehmen im Hinblick auf die Einhaltung von Menschenrechten bei Auslandsaktivitäten (Netzwerk Soziale Verantwortung, 2015).

Nicolas Bueno, Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch im Ausland operierende Unternehmen: Regulierungslücken in Österreich schließen (Netzwerk Soziale Verantwortung, 2014) 9-40.

Blog Posts

Nicolas Bueno, Franziska Oehm: Conditions of Corporate Civil Liability in the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: Restrictive, but clear? VerfBlog, 2024/5/28, doi: 10.59704/a194da1bde472095

Nicolas Bueno, Diligence des entreprises, travail des enfants et minerais : Ce qui va changer, Plaidoyer 2021/05.

Nicolas Bueno: Der lange Weg zur Konzern­verantwortung und Konzernhaftung in der Schweiz, VerfBlog, 2020/6/09, doi: 10.17176/20200608-133707-0

Nicolas Bueno, The Swiss Initiative on Responsible Business and its Counter-Proposal: Texts and Current Developments, Business and Human Rights Journal Blog, Cambridge University Press, December 2018.