Redirecting human rights : facing the challenge of corporate legal humanity / Anna Grear ; [foreword by Upendra Baxi].
2010
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Title
Redirecting human rights : facing the challenge of corporate legal humanity / Anna Grear ; [foreword by Upendra Baxi].
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Call Number
K650 .G74 2010
ISBN
9780230542228 (hardbound)
0230542220 (hardbound)
9780230274631 (e-book)
0230274633 (e-book)
0230542220 (hardbound)
9780230274631 (e-book)
0230274633 (e-book)
Description
xvii, 271 pages ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)318873512
Summary
"This book explores the implications of human embodiment for human rights law and theory. It reflects on the ethical significance of the link between human embodiment and our quintessential ontological vulnerability in an attempt to problematise corporate human rights claims"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-264) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Jaffe Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Jaffe Fund
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
ix
International Instruments and Committee Reports
x
Acknowledgements
xiv
Foreword / Upendra Baxi
xv
Introduction
1
ch. 1
Human Rights under Pressure?
7
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm under pressure
7
A brief assessment of corporate accountability to human rights standards
18
ch. 2
Corporate Human Rights?
23
Liberal pragmatism and the corporate beneficiaries of the ECHR
23
Re-assessing arguments in favour of corporate human rights
31
ch. 3
Law, Persons and Disembodiment
40
Quasi-disembodiment
41
Reflections on legal personality
45
Corporate personality theory
59
Personhood and property
65
ch. 4
The Liberal Subject of Rights, Capitalism and the Corporation
68
Liberal law as a rationalising enterprise
68
The genesis of liberal rights and the liberal legal subject
70
The corporation and capitalism: Personification and ideology
84
Corporations: The ultimate legal person?
89
ch. 5
A Genealogy of Quasi-Disembodiment in International Human Rights Law
96
Exclusions in the early construction of rights
98
The UDHR paradigm: Paradoxes of dis/embodiment
102
̀The universal is male': The persistent marginality of women in international human rights law
104
Two competing conceptions of human rights?
110
ch. 6
The Centrality of Human Embodiment
114
The centrality of embodiment
115
Embodied vulnerability
126
ch. 7
Embodied Vulnerability and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
137
Empathy, rights and embodiment: The eighteenth century
138
Empathy, rights and embodiment: The universal declaration of human rights
140
International rights: Bio-politics, sovereign power, bare life and the challenge for human rights: A critical reading of Article 14 UDHR
150
Embodied vulnerability and the UDHR rights: Conceptual issues
156
Towards the ethical reconstruction of human rights and the human rights and the human rights subject
162
ch. 8
Embodied Vulnerability and the Limits of Privatisation: Reconsidering Property and Human Rights
168
Property and the bifurcation of human rights discourse
168
Property: A contested concept under increasing pressure
171
Excludability and exclusion: Separating the analytical from the ideological
181
Re-imagining property: Inclusion, propriety and rights as ẁhat is due'
184
A case study: The right to water
191
ch. 9
Some Brief Conclusory Thoughts and Future Research Directions
201
A brief aside on an important emergent and future challenge
202
Embodied human vulnerability and the UDHR -'Minding the gap'
204
Notes
207
Bibliography
252
Index
265