Law and Economics: Can human rights conscious legislation embolden corporate social responsibility in the United States to address the problem of poverty?

Please use Bluebook Citation format, if not, then MLA I would like the focus of the paper to flow from an analysis on socio-economic rights into the role of the State and the private corporation as it relates to corporate social responsibility. I want to use lessons taken from abroad to form a proposal for possible policy change domestically. A loose, potential structure with some overlapping concepts follows. -How the recognition of socio-economic rights may grant national governments justification to engage in higher degrees of poverty mitigation and the reasons why corporate coffers may serve as a suitable resource to address socio-economic human rights violations. -Use the right to education at the state level (state constitutions generally) as an example of American law that derives some basis or legitimacy from human rights maxims. The idea is that if we can put socio-economic rights on the law books with regard to education, then we can strengthen what we already have,(guaranteed basic education) and encode into law other socio-economic protections like the human right to housing. -Also, use the problem of poor quality education in U.S. public schools (grades K-12) as an issue/area that would benefit from corporate social investment funding. -The history, goals, and effectiveness of South Africas corporate social investment culture and the success of the Johannesburg stock exchange social responsible investment index (SRI). South Africa is a place where corporate participation in CSR is compulsory by law. -How might the South African experimental approach to CSR be adopted in the USA?
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