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Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below

Deploying Archimedes' Lever
Buch | Softcover
393 Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-46350-8 (ISBN)
32,40 inkl. MwSt
Exploring corporate accountability for past human rights violations in armed conflicts and authoritarian regimes, this book unites two literatures: business and human rights, and transitional justice. Using a corporate accountability and transitional justice database, the authors argue that the accountability processes around the world constitute 'accountability from below'.
Bruno Tesch was tried and executed for his company's Zyklon B gas used in Nazi Germany's extermination camps. This book examines this trial and the more than 300 other economic actors who faced prosecution for the Holocaust's crimes against humanity. It further tracks and analyses similar transitional justice mechanisms for holding economic actors accountable for human rights violations in dictatorships and armed conflict: international, foreign, and domestic trials and truth commissions from the 1970s to the present in every region of the world. This book probes what these accountability efforts are, why they take place, and when, where, and how they unfold. Analysis of the authors' original database leads them to conclude that 'corporate accountability from below' is underway, particularly in Latin America. A kind of Archimedes' lever places the right tools in weak local actors' hands to lift weighty international human rights claims, overcoming the near absence of international pressure and the powerful veto power of business.

Leigh A. Payne is Professor of Sociology and Latin America at the University of Oxford, St Antony's College. She has won awards from the National Science Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, and others for her research on human rights, transitions from authoritarian rule and armed conflict, the armed right wing, and business. Gabriel Pereira is a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas Técnicas of Argentina (CONICET) and an affiliated researcher to the Latin American Centre of the University of Oxford. He is also a Professor in Human Rights at the School of Law at the National University of Tucumán. He has written in journals and books on fields including transitional justice, business and human rights, human rights, and judicial politics. He is a co-founder and member of the human rights organization Andhes. Laura Bernal-Bermúdez is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. She is also affiliated with the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford as a research consultant. In her work she uses mixed methods to look at issues related to armed conflict and access to justice in contexts of transition for victims of grave human rights violations.

1. Corporate accountability from below; Part I. Obstacles to Corporate Accountability: 2. International pressure for corporate accountability; 3. The corporate veto; Part II. Accountability from Below: 4. Truth-telling from below; 5. Justice from below; 6. The impact of accountability from below; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 9 Halftones, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 527 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Völkerrecht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Strafverfahrensrecht
Recht / Steuern Wirtschaftsrecht Gesellschaftsrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-108-46350-9 / 1108463509
ISBN-13 978-1-108-46350-8 / 9781108463508
Zustand Neuware
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