RT Book
T1 Transitional justice and corporate accountability from below: deploying Archimedes' lever
A1 Payne, Leigh A. 1956-
A2 Pereira, José Roberto Gabriel 1977-
A2 Bernal-Bermúdez, Laura 1985-
LA English
PP Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia New Delhi, India Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1671718410
AB "Bruno Tesch was tried, found guilty, and executed for his company's production and sale of the Zyklon B gas used in Nazi Germany's extermination camps. Tesch was not alone. More than 300 economic actors faced prosecution for crimes against humanity during the Holocaust. This book examines those trials and subsequent judicial and non-judicial (truth commission) efforts up to the present to hold economic actors accountable for complicity in gross violations of human rights during armed conflict and authoritarian rule. It probes what these accountability efforts are, why they take place, and when, where , and how they unfold. It also explores obstacles blocking accountability efforts, particularly business veto power and weak international law. The book uses an original oneof- its-kind Corporate Accountability and Transitional Justice database to develop its argument. It claims that the accountability processes underway around the world constitute "accountability from below," a kind of Archimedes' Lever in which the right tools in weak hands can lift weighty international human rights"--
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 337-364
CN K5069
SN 9781108474139
SN 9781108463508
K1 Criminal liability of juristic persons (International law)
K1 Social responsibility of business : Law and legislation : Criminal provisions
K1 Criminal liability of juristic persons
K1 Transitional Justice
K1 Corporations : Corrupt practices
K1 Tort liability of corporations
K1 Unternehmen : Strafbarkeit : Strafrecht : Transitional Justice : Menschenrechtsverletzung : Völkerstrafrecht