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      Corporate Human Rights Violations
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      Global Prospects for Legal Action

      Corporate Human Rights Violations

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      Corporate Human Rights Violations book

      Global Prospects for Legal Action
      ByStefanie Khoury, David Whyte
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 2 January 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315620145
      Pages 220
      eBook ISBN 9781315620145
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Law, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Khoury, S., & Whyte, D. (2017). Corporate Human Rights Violations: Global Prospects for Legal Action (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315620145

      ABSTRACT

      This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of mechanisms of accountability that currently exist, it argues that that those demands are a response to the failure of neo-liberal policies that have dominated the practice of politics and law since the emergence of this debate in its current form in the 1970s.   

      Offering a new approach to understanding how struggles for hegemony are refracted through a range of legal challenges to corporate human rights violations, the book offers a fresh perspective for understanding  how those struggles are played out in the global sphere.  In order to analyse the prospects for using human rights law to challenge the right of corporations to author human rights violations, the book explores the development of a range of political initiatives in the UN, the uses of tort law in domestic courts, and the uses of human rights law at the European Court of Human Rights and at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

      This book will be essential reading for all those interested in how international institutions and NGOs are both shaping and being shaped by global struggles against corporate power.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |23 pages

      Introduction: the rarefied politics of global legal struggles

      chapter 1|20 pages

      From economic cannibalism to corporate human rights liabilities

      chapter 2|21 pages

      Different shades of voluntarism

      chapter 3|12 pages

      A manufactured consensus

      chapter 4|26 pages

      Tort law and the struggle against corporate human rights violations

      chapter 5|33 pages

      Struggles for corporate accountability in the human rights courts

      chapter 6|20 pages

      ‘Human’ rights for profit

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