The human rights of companies
Subtitle: exploring the structure of ECHR protection
By: Marius Emberland.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780199289837
Subjects: European Court of Human Rights; Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950); Human rights -- Europe; Corporation law -- Europe; Corporations -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Europe
Description: Emberland studies the response of the ECHR to complaints submitted to it by companies and their shareholders. This is the first in-depth analysis of the protection of business interests under the European Convention on Human Rights, and a path-breaking study of the value-system on which the ECHR builds.
Table of contents: title: Companies and the structure of convention protection; title: The court's approach to corporate personality; title: The court's response to hard cases of applicability; title: Lenient standards of review; title: Retrospect and prospect.