Seeking Justice
Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse

Seeking Justice explores when and why victims of corporate human rights abuse have access to remedy mechanisms.

Tricia D. Olsen (Author)

9781009293242, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 June 2023

200 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.1 cm, 0.56 kg

Seeking Justice: Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse explores victims' varying experiences in seeking remedy mechanisms for corporate human rights abuse. It puts forward a novel theory about the possibility of productive contestation and explores governance outcomes for victims of corporate human rights abuse across Latin America. This foundation informs three pathways that victims can use to press for their rights: working within the institutional environment, capitalizing on corporate characteristics, and elevating voices. Seeking Justice challenges the common assumptions in the governance gap literature and argues, instead, that greater democratic practices can emerge from productive contestation. This book brings to bear tough questions about the trade-offs associated with economic growth and conflicting values around human dignity-questions that are very salient today, as citizens around the globe contemplate the type of democratic and economic systems that might better prepare us for tomorrow.

1. Human rights in the corporate context: the challenge of accountability
2. Varieties of remedy: how contestation shapes governance
3. The corporations and human rights database
4. How contestation shapes access to judicial remedy
5. How contestation shapes access to non-judicial remedy
6. Does it work? How contestation shapes democratic practices
7. Conclusion: implications of the varieties of remedy approach.

Subject Areas: Ethical & social aspects of IT [UBJ], Corporate governance [KJR], Human rights [JPVH]