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Redirecting Human Rights: Facing the Challenge of Corporate Legal Humanity (Global Ethics) - Softcover

Grear, A.

 
9781349359875: Redirecting Human Rights: Facing the Challenge of Corporate Legal Humanity (Global Ethics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1349359874 ISBN 13: 9781349359875
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author


ANNA GREAR is Senior Lecturer in Law at Bristol Law School, UWE, UK. She is Head of the International Law and Human Rights Research Unit, part of the Centre for Legal Research at UWE. She is also the founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1349359874
ISBN 13 
9781349359875
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288