Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations Civil Society and Transnational Activism across the World

Raluca Grosescu is a Lecturer in Politics at the National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, where she leads the ERC-Consolidator Project “Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability for Major International Crimes.” Her work focuses on the history of international criminal law, memory politics and corporate accountability. She has authored and co-authored various collections on international law and transnational justice and has published in journals such as the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Global Society, and the Journal of the History of International Law. Her latest monograph, Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: Latin America, Central Eastern Europe and the Fragmentation of International Criminal Law was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.

John Dale is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Movement Engaged at George Mason University. He was a Science and Technology Innovation Program Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (2019-20) where he researched the digital transformation of human rights, and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Visiting Research Fellow (2021-22) exploring efforts to integrate human rights into national policies on AI and robotics. He serves as Scientific Advisor on the ERC-Consolidator Project “Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability for Major International Crimes.” Dr. Dale was elected Council Member of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Human Rights (2019-2022) and to the Steering Committee of the Science & Human Rights Coalition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2018-24). He is author of Free Burma: Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and co-author of Political Sociology: Power and Participation in the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2009).