Redirecting Human Rights

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Anna Grear

   Pages 1-6

3. Human Rights under Pressure?

   • Anna Grear

   Pages 7-22

4. Corporate Human Rights?

   • Anna Grear

   Pages 23-39

5. Law, Persons and Disembodiment

   • Anna Grear

   Pages 40-67

6. The Liberal Subject of Rights, Capitalism and the Corporation

   • Anna Grear

   Pages 68-95

7. A Genealogy of Quasi-Disembodiment in International Human Rights Law

   • Anna Grear

   Pages 96-113

8. The Centrality of Human Embodiment

   • Anna Grear

   Pages 114-136

9. Embodied Vulnerability and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

   • Anna Grear

   Pages 137-167

10. Embodied Vulnerability and the Limits of Privatisation: Reconsidering Property and Human Rights

    • Anna Grear

    Pages 168-200

11. Some Brief Conclusory Thoughts and Future Research Directions

    • Anna Grear

    Pages 201-206

12. Back Matter

    Pages 207-271

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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.

• capitalism
• human rights
• human rights law
• Nation

• Bristol Law School, Bristol UWE, UK

  Anna Grear

ANNA GREAR is Senior Lecturer in Law at Bristol Law School, UWE, UK. She is Head of the International Law and Human Rights Research Unit, part of the Centre for Legal Research at UWE. She is also the founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.

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