Eckert, Julia; Knöpfel, Laura (2020). Legal responsibility in an entangled world. Journal of Legal Anthropology, 4(2), pp. 1-16. Berghahn 10.3167/jla.2020.040201
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Responsibility and accountability in entangled global relations
are negotiated across jurisdictional boundaries, localities and scales of
legality. In this special issue, we trace struggles for corporate accountability
from extraction sites in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru to an abandoned
asbestos factory in Italy. We enquire into the gap between the legal institutions
which govern attributions of responsibility in procedural, tort
and corporate laws, lived experiences of harm connected to transnational
business activities and moral expectations of responsibility in global relations.
In the struggles for justice discussed in this special issue, we detect
potential ways of rethinking ascription
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Political Science 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Eckert, Julia |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
ISSN: |
1758-9584 |
Publisher: |
Berghahn |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Anja Julienne Wohlgemuth |
Date Deposited: |
02 Feb 2021 16:36 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:44 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3167/jla.2020.040201 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Legal responsibility; global capitalism; corporate accountability; mobilisation of law; juridification |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/150995 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/150995 |
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