Redirecting Human Rights: Facing the Challenge of Corporate Legal Humanity

by Anna Grear

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349359874
• ISBN13: 9781349359875
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"