Seeking justice : access to remedy for corporate human rights abuse / Tricia D. Olsen, University of Denver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsen, Tricia D., author.

Series:

Globalization and human rights (Cambridge, England)

Globalization and human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporation law--Latin America--Criminal provisions.

Corporation law.

International law and human rights--Latin America.

International law and human rights.

Remedies (Law)--Latin America.

Remedies (Law).

Liability for human rights violations--Latin America.

Liability for human rights violations.

Tort liability of corporations--Latin America.

Tort liability of corporations.

Social responsibility of business--Law and legislation--Latin America.

Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 269 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Seeking Justice: Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse explores victims' varying experiences in seeking remedy mechanisms for corporate human rights abuse. It puts forward a novel theory about the possibility of productive contestation and explores governance outcomes for victims of corporate human rights abuse across Latin America. This foundation informs three pathways that victims can use to press for their rights: working within the institutional environment, capitalizing on corporate characteristics, and elevating voices. Seeking Justice challenges the common assumptions in the governance gap literature and argues, instead, that greater democratic practices can emerge from productive contestation. This book brings to bear tough questions about the trade-offs associated with economic growth and conflicting values around human dignity-questions that are very salient today, as citizens around the globe contemplate the type of democratic and economic systems that might better prepare us for tomorrow.

Contents:

Human rights in the corporate context : the challenge of accountability

The varieties of remedy approach : how contestation shapes governance

The corporations & Human rights database

How contestation shapes access to jusdicial remedy mechanisms

How contestation shapes access to non-judicial remedy mechanisms

DOes it work? how contestation shapes democratic practices

Conclusion : Implications of the varieties of remedy approach.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jun 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-009-29326-5

1-009-29329-X

1-009-29328-1