Corporations and transnational human rights litigation /

Since the mid-1980s litigants have been exploring ways of holding multinational corporations [MNCs] liable for offshore human rights abuses in the courts of the company's home States. This study examines these developments and the procedural arguments which have been used to block litigation. J...

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Main Author: Joseph, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2004
Series:Human rights law in perspective ; v. 4.
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