Economic Actors and the Limits of Transitional Justice

Leigh A. Payne is professor of sociology and Latin America at the University of Oxford (St Antony's College). She has won awards from the National Science Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts & Humanities Research Council, British Academy, and others for her research on human rights, transitions from authoritarian rule and armed conflict, right-wing mobilisations, perpetrators' confessions, and business and politics. She engages in a range of approaches from comparative analysis of empirical data to performance studies.Laura Bernal-Bermúdez is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. She is also affiliated to the Latin American Centre of the University of Oxford as a research consultant. She completed her PhD in Sociology in the University of Oxford in 2017. She holds an MSc in Human Rights from the Department of Sociology at the LSE. In her work she uses mixed methods to look at issues related to armed conflict and access to justice in contexts of transition for victims of grave human rights violations. She has won awards from USAID and Fulbright.Gabriel Pereira is a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas of Argentina (CONICET), the National University of Tucumán (UNT) and an affiliated research to the Latin American Centre of the University of Oxford. He is a professor in Human Rights at the School of Law at the UNT. He was a postdoctoral researcher and a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Department of Sociology of the University of Oxford. He completed his PhD in Politics at the same University in 2014. He holds a Master Degree in Social Science (Democracy and Democratization) from the University College London, and a Law Degree from the National University of Tucuman. He has written in journals and in books in the areas of transitional justice, business and human rights, human rights, and judicial politics. He is co-founder and was Executive Director of the human rights organisation Andhes.

This is an insightful and wide-ranging series of papers with a compelling theme

• List of FiguresList of TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1: LEIGH A. PAYNE, LAURA BERNAL-BERMÚDEZ AND GABRIEL PEREIRA: Conceptual Framework for Understanding Corporate Complicity in Human Rights ViolationsPART I: The Historical Roots of Corporate Accountability2: LEIGH A. PAYNE, MARY BEALL AND AMI HUTCHINSON: The Roots of Corporate Accountability: From the Holocaust and Beyond3: GABRIEL PEREIRA: Corporate Accountability in Argentina: Fighting Corporate Impunity in Provincial Transitional Justice Contexts4: FELIPE COLLA DE AMORIM, RODOLFO MACHADO AND VITOR SION: Accountability for Volkswagen's Role in the Brazilian Dictatorship5: LAURA BERNAL-BERMÚDEZ AND NELSON CAMILO SÁNCHEZ: Innovation from the Bench: Judges, Prosecutors, and Analysts Advancing Truth and Accountability for Conflict-Related Corporate Complicity in Colombia6: MIGUEL BARBOZA-LÓPEZ: Corporate Complicity During the Peruvian Armed Conflict: Developing Archimedes´ Lever in the Case of Campesino Communities7: HENNIE VAN VUUREN AND MICHAEL MARCHANT: Transitional Justice and Economic Crimes: Innovative Approaches from South AfricaPART II: Ongoing Corporate Accountability Efforts8: TRICIA D. OLSEN: Business as Usual? The Legacy of Transitions to Democracy on Corporate Accountability9: KARINNA FERNÁNDEZ AND SEBASTIAN SMART: Complicity of Companies in Chile's Current Human Rights Crisis10: NANCY R. TAPIAS TORRADO: !Berta vive, la lucha sigue!: Corporate Accountability for Attacks against Human Rights Defenders in Honduras11: RUBEN CARRANZA: Transitional Justice, Corruption, and Mutually Reinforcing Accountability: What the Global South Can Learn from the PhilippinesConclusion: The Past, the Present, and the Future of Accountability of Corporate Complicity in Gross Human Rights ViolationsBibliographyIndex