The Holocaust, corporations and the law : unfinished business /

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Author / Creator:Bilsky, Leora, 1967- author.
Imprint:Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Description:1 online resource (xii, 239 pages)
Language:English
Series:Law, meaning, and violence
Law, meaning, and violence.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12681347
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ISBN:9780472123094
0472123092
9780472053612
0472053612
9780472073610
0472073613
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 10, 2018).
Summary: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 suits were settled for unprecedented amounts of money, the defendants did not formally assume any legal responsibility. Thus, the lawsuits were bitterly criticized by lawyers for betraying justice and by historians for distorting history. Leora Bilsky argues class action litigation and settlement offer a mode of accountability well suited to addressing the bureaucratic nature of business involvement in atrocities. Prior to these lawsuits, legal treatment of the Holocaust was dominated by criminal law and its individualistic assumptions, consistently failing to relate to the structural aspects of Nazi crimes. Engaging critically with contemporary debates about corporate responsibility for human rights violations and assumptions about "law," she argues for the need to design processes that make multinational corporations accountable, and examines the implications for transitional justice, the relationship between law and history, and for community and representation in a post-national world. In an era when corporations are ever more powerful and international, Bilsky's arguments will attract attention beyond those interested in the Holocaust and its long shadow.
Other form:Print version: Bilsky, Leora, 1967- Holocaust, corporations and the law. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2017 9780472053612
Standard no.:10.3998/mpub.7719249

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