Seeking Justice: Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse

Tricia D. Olsen

Jun 2023 · Cambridge University Press

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Seeking Justice: Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse explores victims' varying experiences in seeking remedy mechanisms for corporate human rights abuse. It puts forward a novel theory about the possibility of productive contestation and explores governance outcomes for victims of corporate human rights abuse across Latin America. This foundation informs three pathways that victims can use to press for their rights: working within the institutional environment, capitalizing on corporate characteristics, and elevating voices. Seeking Justice challenges the common assumptions in the governance gap literature and argues, instead, that greater democratic practices can emerge from productive contestation. This book brings to bear tough questions about the trade-offs associated with economic growth and conflicting values around human dignity-questions that are very salient today, as citizens around the globe contemplate the type of democratic and economic systems that might better prepare us for tomorrow.

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Tricia D. Olsen is Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business and holds a joint appointment at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Olsen's work on human rights, political economy, business ethics, and transitional justice has been supported by the National Science Foundation, USAID, and Fulbright, among others.