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2 - Challenging the Invisible

Who, How and Why

from Part I - Corporate Accountability and Transitional Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2025

Taygeti Michalakea
Affiliation:
European Law and Governance School, Athens
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Chapter 2 presents a normative understanding of the integration of corporate accountability within TJ, assessed against the aims of TJ, namely accountability of the perpetrators, remedies for the victims and reconciliation. More often than not, the odds are that transitional justice can at least partially deliver those goals, insofar as it also includes corporate perpetrators. Furthermore, the proposed integration responds to persistent victims’ calls for corporate accountability, situates the latter within the long-appraised discourse on ‘root causes of violence’ and inserts the much needed economic aspect in transitional praxis, equipping it better to address the multi-layered complexities of prior injustice, and making it more receptive to domestic predicaments. The chapter then explores how the integration of CA and TJ can be translated in the vernacular of legal doctrine. It puts under the spotlight states and their obligations, based on their leading position as the institutional drivers of transitions and the corresponding rights of victims, whose experiences and demands are paramount for transitional justice. Those sets of rights and obligations are best performed via an amalgamation of different legal regimes in both the international and national levels and a blending of national and international law, as evidenced by different examples.

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  • Challenging the Invisible
  • Taygeti Michalakea, European Law and Governance School, Athens
  • Book: When Corporate Accountability meets Transitional Justice
  • Online publication: 10 October 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009676847.004
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  • Challenging the Invisible
  • Taygeti Michalakea, European Law and Governance School, Athens
  • Book: When Corporate Accountability meets Transitional Justice
  • Online publication: 10 October 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009676847.004
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  • Challenging the Invisible
  • Taygeti Michalakea, European Law and Governance School, Athens
  • Book: When Corporate Accountability meets Transitional Justice
  • Online publication: 10 October 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009676847.004
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