Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Combines academic reflections about the impacts of human rights law with the experience of practitioners from the field
- Gives an interesting insight into the thinking of academics and practitioners from South Asia about the role of Human Rights law in labour rights struggles
- Gives an overview over the debate on the role of law in improving working conditions in global value chains
Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights (CHREN, volume 6)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and Its Aftermath: Litigations, Campaigning and Transnational Collaboration
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Labour and Tort Law Aspects of Global Supply Chains
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Critical Perspectives on Law and Litigation
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Keywords
- Strategic litigation/public interest litigation
- Law of global value chains
- Critical perspectives on the law
- Human Rights Due Dilligence
- Corporate Accountability
- Transnational Law
- Transnational Activism
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Third world approaches to the law
- Human Rights and International Labour RIghts
- Open access
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Miriam Saage-Maaß is a lawyer and vice legal director at ECCHR, where she also leads the Business and Human Rights program. She worked on various cases against corporations, including civil litigation against German retailers regarding to labor exploitation in South Asia, as well as criminal proceedings against high-ranking managers for their involvement in international crimes. Saage-Maaß regularly publishes academic articles on corporate accountability for human rights violations in global supply chains and is an internationally renowned expert for corporate responsibility and human rights.
Peer Zumbansen is a private law scholar with a focus on contract law, corporate governance and transnational regulatory theory. In January 2021, he joined McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal, Canada, as the inaugural holder of the professorship of business law. From 2004 to 2020, he held a research chair and professorship at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada, where he founded and directed the Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society, and the Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory and launched the SSRN e-journal for the Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy Network.
Michael Bader studied law at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in Law, Development and Globalisation from SOAS, University of London. He cofounded the Refugee Law Clinic Leipzig and is an editor of Völkerrechtsblog. After a traineeship in 2017, Bader joined the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in September 2019 as a Research Fellow in the Business and Human Rights programme with a focus on corporate exploitation in global supply chains. Since September 2020, he has been supporting ECCHR’s Institute for Legal Intervention as a Bertha Justice Fellow.
Palvasha Shahab was the joint executive director of the Rasheed Razvi Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights, and the Legal Aid Foundation for Victims of Rape and Sexual Assault through September 2020. She now works a consultant for RCCHR, LAFRSA, the Legal Aid Society and the Pakistan Institute for Labour Education and Research. She is on the Law Committee of the Sindh Commission of the Status on Women and advises on upcoming legislation. She is also an advisor to a transnational collaborative project on oral histories and social interventions titled “Karachi Beach Radio.” She also teaches undergraduate courses on peace movements and international human rights law at SZABIST, Karachi. Shahab further curates and moderates important public discussions on national platforms such as the Adab Fest and The Second Floor. She holds a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School, New York, US, where she was also a Human Rights Fellow at the Human Rights Institute in 2017-18.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains
Book Subtitle: The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and the Struggle for Justice
Editors: Miriam Saage-Maaß, Peer Zumbansen, Michael Bader, Palvasha Shahab
Series Title: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73835-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73834-1Published: 01 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73837-2Published: 01 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73835-8Published: 30 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2509-2960
Series E-ISSN: 2509-2979
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 333
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Rights, Political Science, Labour Law/Social Law