Redirecting Human Rights: Facing the Challenge of Corporate Legal Humanity (Global Ethics)

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--provided By Publisher. 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 The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights -- Embodied Vulnerability And The Limits Of Privatisation : Reconsidering Property And Human Rights -- Some Brief Conclusory Thoughts And Future Research Directions. Anna Grear ; [foreword By Upendra Baxi]. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 252-264) And Index. 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. Machine generated contents note: Introduction Corporate Human Rights? The Challenge of Legal Disembodiment Liberal Legal Personality Examined The Centrality of Human Embodiment The UDHR, Suffering and Embodied Personality Revisiting Corporate Rights and Duties Towards the Ethical Reconstruction of Human Rights.