1st Edition
Transitional Justice, Corporate Accountability and Socio-Economic Rights Lessons from Argentina
By Laura García Martín
Copyright 2020
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the intersection of two emergent and vibrant fields of study in international human rights law: transitional justice and corporate accountability for human rights abuses. While both have received significant academic and political attention, the potential links between them remain largely unexplored. This book addresses the normative question of how international human... Read more
Introduction
PART I – TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS
Chapter 1 - Analysing the Transitional Justice paradigm
Introduction
Background and evolution of Transitional Justice
Defining the Transitional Justice Paradigm
Transitional Justice Processes and Mechanisms
Truth
Justice
Reparations
Institutional Reform
Transitional Justice Theories
Socio-political aspects of Transitional Justice
Intermediate conclusions: A unique model of transitional justice?
Chapter 2 – Socio-economic Rights in Transitional Justice
Introduction
Contextualising socio-economic rights in International law
Labour rights as socio-economic rights: a particular focus on freedom of association at the workplace
Labour rights as human rights
Freedom of association at the workplace: the right to form and join trade unions and the right to collective bargain
Traditional invisibility of socio-economic rights in transitional justice contexts
Addressing socio-economic rights in transitional justice processes
Truth and reconciliation commissions
Judicial Processes
Reparations policies
Institutional reform
Intermediate conclusions: the added value of addressing socio-economic rights in transitional justice
PART II: CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
Chapter 3 – Corporate legal accountability for human rights abuses
Introduction
Clarifying the notion of corporate complicity for human rights abuses
Policy meaning and legal implications
Categories of corporate complicity
Direct corporate complicity
Indirect complicity
Silent complicity
Corporate a
Biography
Laura García Martín is a postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant at University of Seville and University of Antwerp. Her research interests include the socio-economic dimension of transitional justice and business and human rights.
