SOC446H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Critical Legal Studies, Unocal Corporation, Corporate Crime
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Human rights in an era of neoliberal globalization holzmeyer. Investment serves the military regime and not the broader burmese society: tnc"s continue to assert that foreign investment is beneficial and that to disinvest in. Burma or countries with similarly repressive governments, would be unhelpful and even harmful to democratic prospects: activists fighting for human rights in burma confront political challenges. In the holzmeyer article (2009), the author discusses the doe v. unocal case which is a human rights and corporate accountability case filed in 1996 by burmese plaintiffs and us human rights litigators against the corporate repression in burma. The article also mentions how grassroots activism took place in san francisco in an effort to use legal mobilization to help the burmese people and bring legal change. People became engaged in the struggle to end state and corporate repression (holzmeyer, 2009).
