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- Name: Law in Protest: Transnational Struggles for Corporate Liability
- Project leader: Julia Eckert
- Hosting institution: Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern
- Source and type of funding: SNSF
- Duration: 36 months
- Short description:This research project addressed the issue of corporate responsibility in today’s entangled world order. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have become powerful players in the global world economy in recent years, and their actions have an increasing impact on the daily lives of people around the world. At the same time, TNCs are highly complex economic and legal entities that can often escape existing state regulation. When the subsidiaries of such TNCs violate human rights or cause environmental damage in the host states, i.e. in the countries where they operate, often no legal responsibility can be established. At the same time, the parent companies in the so-called home states are also evading any form of responsibility. Our research project focused on this form of corporate impunity and asked about the legal possibilities to overcome this.
- Contact person: eckert@anthro.unibe.ch