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Global Ethics

Facing the Challenge of Corporate Legal Humanity

By: Anna Grear

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Hardcover | 1 May 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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 form. She argues that in the field of human rights law, particularly within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, human embodied vulnerability should be understood as the foundation of human rights and as a key qualifying characteristic of the human rights subject. The need to redirect human rights in order to resist their colonization by powerful economic global actors could scarcely be more urgent.

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List of Abbreviations	p. ix
International Instruments and Committee Reports	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Human Rights under Pressure?	p. 7
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm under pressure	p. 7
A brief assessment of corporate accountability to human rights standards	p. 18
Corporate Human Rights?	p. 23
Liberal pragmatism and the corporate beneficiaries of the ECHR	p. 23
Re-assessing arguments in favour of corporate human rights	p. 31
Law, Persons and Disembodiment	p. 40
Quasi-disembodiment	p. 41
Reflections on legal personality	p. 45
Corporate personality theory	p. 59
Personhood and property	p. 65
The Liberal Subject of Rights, Capitalism and the Corporation	p. 68
Liberal law as a rationalising enterprise	p. 68
The genesis of liberal rights and the liberal legal subject	p. 70
The corporation and capitalism: Personification and ideology	p. 84
Corporations: The ultimate legal person?	p. 89
A Genealogy of Quasi-Disembodiment in International Human Rights Law	p. 96
Exclusions in the early construction of rights	p. 98
The UDHR paradigm: Paradoxes of dis/embodiment	p. 102
'The universal is male': The persistent marginality of women in international human rights law	p. 104
Two competing conceptions of human rights?	p. 110
The Centrality of Human Embodiment	p. 114
The centrality of embodiment	p. 115
Embodied vulnerability	p. 126
Embodied Vulnerability and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights	p. 137
Empathy, rights and embodiment: The eighteenth century	p. 138
Empathy, rights and embodiment: The universal declaration of human rights	p. 140
International rights: Bio-politics, sovereign power, bare life and the challenge for human rights: A critical reading of Article 14 UDHR	p. 150
Embodied vulnerability and the UDHR rights: Conceptual issues	p. 156
Towards the ethical reconstruction of human rights and the human rights subject	p. 162
Embodied Vulnerability and the Limits of Privatisation: Reconsidering Property and Human Rights	p. 168
Property and the bifurcation of human rights discourse	p. 168
Property: A contested concept under increasing pressure	p. 171
Excludability and exclusion: Separating the analytical from the ideological	p. 181
Re-imagining property: Inclusion, propriety and rights as 'what is due'	p. 184
A case study: The right to water	p. 191
Some Brief Conclusory Thoughts and Future Research Directions	p. 201
A brief aside on an important emergent and future challenge	p. 202
Embodied human vulnerability and the UDHR - 'Minding the gap'	p. 204
Notes	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 252
Index	p. 265
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