Accountability from below: Archimedes' lever and bringing justice for past corporate human rights abuses
This talk is based on a forthcoming book on Corporate Accountability and Transitional Justice: Deploying Archimedes’ Lever (co-authored with Gabriel Pereira and Laura Bernal-Bermúdez, Cambridge University Press, 2019). The book traces accountability efforts for economic actors’ complicit in past authoritarian state and armed conflict violations. It examines judicial and non-judicial forms of accountability. The book explores the barriers to accountability but also how local actors have managed to overcome those barriers to bring economic actors to justice. The Archimedes’ Lever approach adopted in the book focuses on four sets of factors: local mobilization, institutional innovators, international pressure, and the veto power of the economic sector
Date:
25 November 2019, 12:15 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Venue:
42-43 Park End Street, 42-43 Park End Street OX1 1JD
Venue Details:
Lecture Theatre - Sandwich lunch 12:15; seminar starts at 12:45. Please note that entrance to the building is via Tidmarsh Lane
Speaker:
Leigh Payne (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Department of Sociology
Organiser:
Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Department of Sociology Events
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editors:
Antoinette Moffa,
Natasha Cotton
