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Corporate Human Rights Violations: Global Prospects for Legal Action

Corporate Human Rights Violations: Global Prospects for Legal Action

Author: Stefanie Khoury; David Whyte
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138659551
Published In: December 2016
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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 by corporations. Based on an analysis of the range of mechanisms of accountability that current exist, it argues that that those demands are a response to the failure of neoliberal politics 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 analyses 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 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. It will be essential reading to campaigners involved in corporate accountability debates, as well as scholars in legal and human rights studies, and in sociology, criminology, politics and international relations.

Introduction: The Rarefied Politics of Global Legal Struggles

Introduction: Corporate Human Rights Violations

Human Rights and Corporate Accountability

A Mirror Image?

The Rarefied Politics of Global Consent

Global Social Ordering

Counter-hegemony and Resistance?

The Structure of the Book

Chapter One: From Economic Cannibalism to Corporate Human Rights LIabilities

Introduction

Corporations, Human Rights and the UN

Corporations as Bearers of Rights

Corporations as Political Institutions

The Draft Norms

Lobbying the Norms

The NGO Lobby

Conclusion: Untangling the Roots of UN Policy

Chapter Two: Different Shades of Voluntarism

Introduction

The Global Compact: ‘Support Group’ or ‘Good Old Boys Club’?

An American in the Court of King Kofi

The "Continuation of a Business-Friendly Agenda"?

The Guiding Principles

A Fake Consensus

Conclusion

Chapter Three: A Manufactured Consent

Introduction

Evaluating the Role of the OECD Guidelines

Complaints Taken by NGOs

Mutual Agreement?

No Enforcement

Corporate Structural Advantage

Conclusion

Chapter Four: Tort Law and the Struggle Against Corporate Human Rights Violations

Introduction

The Civil Justice System and Corporate Accountability

Alien Tort Claims Act 1789

The Business Lobby Celebrates

European Transnational Tort Cases

Transnational Jurisdiction and the Imperial Court

Transnational Struggle?

Conclusion: Nearly Absolute Non-Accountability

Chapter Five: Struggles for Corporate Accountability in the Human Rights Courts

Introduction

Positive and Negative Obligations

Positive Obligations into the Private Sphere

The Horizontal Effect in the European System

The Horizontal Effect in the Inter-American System

NGOs and the Struggle for Recognition

Struggles for Collective Rights

Conclusion

Chapter Six: ‘Human’ Rights for Profit

Introduction

The Corporate Victim

Corporate Rights in Europe

Corporate Rights at the Inter-American Court

Corporate Law Trumps Human Rights Law

Political Struggles for Corporate Rights

Conclusion: New Mechanisms of Accountability for Corporate Human Rights Violations?

Making Struggles Around Human Rights Visible

Moving Towards a Treaty?

A Peoples’ Tribunal?

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