Redirecting Human Rights

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.

• Introduction Human Rights Under Pressure? Corporate Human Rights? Law, Persons and Disembodiment The Liberal Subject of Rights, Capitalism and the Corporation A Genealogy of Quasi-Disembodiment in International Human Rights Law The Centrality of Human Embodiment Embodied Vulnerability and Human Rights Embodied Vulnerability and the Limits of Privatization: Reconsidering Property and Human Rights Some Brief Conclusory Thoughts and Future Research Directions Bibliography