The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law : Unfinished Business /

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The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law explores the challenge posed by the Holocaust to legal and political thought by examining the issues raised by the restitution class action suits brought against Swiss banks and German corporations before American federal courts in the 1990s. Although the sui...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bilsky, Leora, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Law, meaning, and violence.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Claims.
Class actions (Civil procedure) > United States.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Reparations.
Holocaust survivors > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Corporate accountability and collective guilt
  • 2. Transnational Holocaust litigation : between international criminal law and structural reform
  • 3. Rethinking settlement
  • 4. Transnational litigation and the legitimacy of domestic courts
  • 5. A process-oriented approach to corporate liability for human rights violations
  • 6. Humanitarian payment and corporate responsibility
  • 7. The judge and the historian
  • 8. Commissioned corporate history
  • Conclusion : transnational Holocaust litigation as a source of theorization and strategy.

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