Redirecting Human Rights Facing the Challenge

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.

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
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Redirecting Human Rights Facing the Challenge of Corporate Legal Humanity

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