Corporate Human Rights Violations

Stéfanie Khoury is Research Associate the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research focuses on the lack of accountability of state and corporate violations of human rights.David Whyte is Professor in Socio-legal Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK, where he specialises in teaching and researching the relationship between corporate power and law.

• Introduction: The Rarefied Politics of Global Legal StrugglesIntroduction: Corporate Human Rights ViolationsHuman Rights and Corporate AccountabilityA Mirror Image?The Rarefied Politics of Global ConsentGlobal Social OrderingCounter-hegemony and Resistance?The Structure of the BookChapter One: From Economic Cannibalism to Corporate Human Rights LiabilitiesIntroductionCorporations, Human Rights and the UNCorporations as Bearers of RightsCorporations as Political InstitutionsThe Draft NormsLobbying the NormsThe NGO LobbyConclusion: Untangling the Roots of UN PolicyChapter Two: Different Shades of VoluntarismIntroductionThe Global Compact: ‘Support Group’ or ‘Good Old Boys Club’?An American in the Court of King KofiThe "Continuation of a Business-Friendly Agenda"?The Guiding PrinciplesA Fake ConsensusConclusionChapter Three: A Manufactured ConsentIntroductionEvaluating the Role of the OECD GuidelinesComplaints Taken by NGOsMutual Agreement?No EnforcementCorporate Structural AdvantageConclusionChapter Four: Tort Law and the Struggle Against Corporate Human Rights ViolationsIntroductionThe Civil Justice System and Corporate AccountabilityAlien Tort Claims Act 1789The Business Lobby CelebratesEuropean Transnational Tort CasesTransnational Jurisdiction and the Imperial CourtTransnational Struggle?Conclusion: Nearly Absolute Non-AccountabilityChapter Five: Struggles for Corporate Accountability in the Human Rights Courts IntroductionPositive and Negative ObligationsPositive Obligations into the Private SphereThe Horizontal Effect in the European SystemThe Horizontal Effect in the Inter-American SystemNGOs and the Struggle for RecognitionStruggles for Collective RightsConclusionChapter Six: ‘Human’ Rights for ProfitIntroductionThe Corporate VictimCorporate Rights in EuropeCorporate Rights at the Inter-American Court Corporate Law Trumps Human Rights LawPolitical Struggles for Corporate RightsConclusion: New Mechanisms of Accountability for Corporate Human Rights Violations?Making Struggles Around Human Rights VisibleMoving Towards a Treaty?A Peoples’ Tribunal?

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