Corporate Power and Human Rights

Corporate Power and Human Rights
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9781317224105
ISBN-13 : 1317224108
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Synopsis Corporate Power and Human Rights by : Manette Kaisershot

There is ample evidence about the negative effects business activity of all types can have on the provision of human rights. Equally, there can be little doubt economic development, usually driven through business activity and trade, is necessary for any state to provide the institutions and infrastructure necessary to secure and provide human rights for their citizens. The United Nations and businesses recognise this tension and are collaborating to effect change in business behaviours through voluntary initiatives such as the Global Compact and John Ruggie’s Guiding Principles. Yet voluntary approaches are evidently failing to prevent human rights violations and there are few alternatives in law for affected communities to seek justice. This book seeks to robustly challenge the current status quo of business approaches to human rights in order to develop meaningful alternatives in an attempt to breech the gap between the realities of business and human rights and its discourse. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.

Corporate Human Rights Violations

Corporate Human Rights Violations
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9781317216063
ISBN-13 : 1317216067
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Corporate Human Rights Violations by : Stefanie Khoury

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.

The Persistent Power of Human Rights

The Persistent Power of Human Rights
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 373
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ISBN-10 : 9781107028937
ISBN-13 : 1107028930
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Persistent Power of Human Rights by : Thomas Risse

This book offers a unique combination of quantitative and qualitative research arguing for the persistent power of human rights norms.

The Cambridge Companion to Business and Human Rights Law

The Cambridge Companion to Business and Human Rights Law
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 683
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ISBN-10 : 9781108900287
ISBN-13 : 1108900283
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Business and Human Rights Law by : Ilias Bantekas

How can businesses operate profitably and sustainably while ensuring that they are applying human rights? It is possible to apply human rights while at the same time decreasing cost and making human rights contribute to profits. Yet business efforts alone are insufficient, and states must possess sufficient regulatory power to work together with businesses and investors – not only to improve human rights but also to foster development more broadly. This textbook, the first of its kind, explores all aspects of the links between business operations and human rights. Its twenty-five chapters guide readers systematically through all the particular features of this intersection, integrating legal and business approaches. Thematic sections cover conceptual and regulatory frameworks, remedies and dispute resolution, and practical enforcement tools. Ideal for courses in business, law, policy and international development, the book is also essential reading for managers in large corporations.

The Power of Human Rights

The Power of Human Rights
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 0521658829
ISBN-13 : 9780521658829
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Power of Human Rights by : Thomas Risse

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Corporate Citizen?

Corporate Citizen?
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1632847264
ISBN-13 : 9781632847263
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Synopsis Corporate Citizen? by : Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

Over time, corporations have engaged in an aggressive campaign to dramatically enlarge their political and commercial speech and religious rights through strategic litigation and extensive lobbying. At the same time, many large firms have sought to limit their social responsibilities. For the most part, courts have willingly followed corporations down this path. But interestingly, corporations are meeting resistance from many quarters including from customers, investors, and lawmakers. Corporate Citizen? explores this resistance and offers reforms to support these new understandings of the corporation in contemporary society.

Redirecting Human Rights

Redirecting Human Rights
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780230274631
ISBN-13 : 0230274633
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Redirecting Human Rights by : A. Grear

Against the backdrop of globalization and mounting evidence of the corporate subversion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, Anna Grear interrogates the complex tendencies within law that are implicated in the emergence of 'corporate humanity'. Grear presents a critical account of legal subjectivity, linking it with law's intimate relationship with liberal capitalism in order to suggest law's special receptivity to the corporate form. She argues that in the field of human rights law, particularly within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, human embodied vulnerability should be understood as the foundation of human rights and as a key qualifying characteristic of the human rights subject. The need to redirect human rights in order to resist their colonization by powerful economic global actors could scarcely be more urgent.

Gangs of America

Gangs of America
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Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9781576753194
ISBN-13 : 1576753190
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Gangs of America by : Ted Nace

'Gangs of America' traces the evolution of the corporation, one of the core institutions of the modern world. It ties political debates about multi-national trade agreements, financial scandals and scores of other specific issues into the narrative account.

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
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Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Total Pages : 485
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ISBN-10 : 9780871403841
ISBN-13 : 0871403846
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by : Adam Winkler

National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A PBS “Now Read This” Book Club Selection Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the Boston Globe A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post). In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes sense of our fraught constitutional history in this incisive portrait of how American businesses seized political power, won “equal rights,” and transformed the Constitution to serve big business. Uncovering the deep roots of Citizens United, he repositions that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision as the capstone of a centuries-old battle for corporate personhood. “Tackling a topic that ought to be at the heart of political debate” (Economist), Winkler surveys more than four hundred years of diverse cases—and the contributions of such legendary legal figures as Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall—to reveal that “the history of corporate rights is replete with ironies” (Wall Street Journal). We the Corporations is an uncompromising work of history to be read for years to come.

Corporate Control, Corporate Power

Corporate Control, Corporate Power
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 0521289076
ISBN-13 : 9780521289078
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Corporate Control, Corporate Power by : Edward S. Herman

Deep and detailed research into the workings of corporate enables Professor Herman to throw considerable light on how the board of directors operates, how important outside directors are, how new members are selected, and how multiple directorships interlock the large corporations. Throughout the book the author contrasts the power of the managers with that of other interest groups - bankers, family - and he concludes that power lies with the managers. But this has not changed the basic objectives of the corporation - the pursuit of growth and profits - nor has it enhanced social responsibility. After thorough investigation Edward Herman concludes that government regulation has done surprisingly little to reduce the autonomy of the corporation. Just as the influence of bankers and investors has been resisted, so has the effect of regulation. Improved communications and controls, geographic dispersion, and the enhanced adaptability and mobility of the large corporation have all played a part in maintaining corporate power and managerial control. Corporate Control, Corporate Power will be essential reading for executives, policy makers, regulators, and all those concerned to make the corporation more responsible and accountable.