Fundamental Rights of Corporations as International Human Rights

The article deals with the question of whether and why international human rights law should protect corporations at the example of regional economic integration systems such as the European Union. For the European Court of Justice, granting human rights to corporations is the natural response to the key role that private companies play in the integration program. Regional human rights courts, in contrast, partly struggle to recognise corporations as human rights holders. The article critically examines the theoretical raison d’être of fundamental rights of corporations, granted in the framework of international human rights, and reflects on them on the basis of a Rule of Law-postulate

Fundamental rights · Human rights · International human rights law · Law and economics · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Reservation of rights · Right to property · Sociology · Corporate Law and Human Rights · European and International Law Studies · Law · Ombudsman and Human Rights