Dear colleagues,
please consider submitting a paper proposal to the following LawNet panel
*[P062]* for the 15th EASA Conference, August 14-17 2018, Stockholm:
****Transnational Corporations, Industrial Disasters and Environmental
Hazards. **Allocating Moral and Legal Responsibilities Across Different
National Contexts****
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6569
*Short abstract*
This LawNet panel discusses how law organises the allocation of
responsibilities to transnational corporations and their representatives in
the context of industrial disasters and environmental hazards across
different legal forums in late capitalism.
*Long abstract*
One of the main features of law is the allocation of responsibilities.
However, with regard to corporate liability and in cases of mass suffering
in the context of industrial disasters and environmental hazards, we can
regularly observe the breakdown of the established rules of allocation of
responsibilities, often interpreted as a distinct feature of modernity.
Law—to the major extent still nationally organised—struggles to keep up
with transnationally organised corporations. This means that comparatively
immobile law meets highly mobile transnational corporations, which results
in the dispersion of responsibilities. At the same time, people and social
movements mobilise this uneven legal landscape as a resource for strategic
litigation to hold transnational corporations or their representatives
liable for alleged wrongdoings, shifting trials to different national or
international legal forums.
This LawNet panel invites contributions on litigation cases in the context
of industrial disasters and environmental hazards, studying how law
organises the allocation of responsibilities across different legal forums
in late capitalism, as well as how litigation cases provide a forum for
social definitions of industrial disasters and environmental hazards. It
asks how different legal norms privilege certain notions of
responsibilities, while they silence others. In particular, we are
interested in contributions, which discuss how the translation of an
industrial disaster or an environmental hazard into a legal issue shape the
environmental crisis. Finally, it invites contributions that explore
definitions of responsibility at the intersection of social, legal and
political spheres.--
*Convenors*:
David Loher (University of Bern)
Antonio Maria Pusceddu (Universitat de Barcelona)
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