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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. 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.
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.
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