Raluca Grosescu
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Raluca Grosescu is a lecturer in politics at the National University of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest. After a PhD in political science at the University of Nanterre, she worked in different universities and research institutes across Europe, including Exeter University, the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. Her lates 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. She is also the principal investigator of the ERC-Consolidator Grant “Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability for Major International Crimes” and the Romanian Research Council Grant “State Socialist Contributions to the Development of International Criminal and Humanitarian Law after 1945”.
In June 2024, she joins the IAS for a one-month writing residency.
Research Interests
Corporate Accountability, Business and Human Rights, International Criminal Law, Transitional Justice, Memory Politics
Corporate Accountability, Business and Human Rights, International Criminal Law, Transitional Justice, Memory Politics
This project explores different ideological approaches to corporate accountability for human rights violations and massive environmental degradation, and the way they impact on norm formation and justice processes. Based on empirical analysis of transnational advocacy networks linking Europe, North America, and Latin America, and the examination of academic literature on global corporate accountability, Grosescu identifes four scripts of dealing with corporate violence:
1) the neoliberal script which emphasizes the value of corporate self-governance and accountability, including social corporate responsibility (CSR) and auto-regulation initiatives of various industries.
2) the liberal script which endorses national and international binding regulations for corporate responsibility, but still put in the center of the attention the importance of free markets as a key factor of development and economic growth.
3) the neo-Marxist script that takes a bold stance against structural inequalities generated by capitalism in general, and neoliberalism in particular – followed by claims of restructuring not only the corporate accountability legal arrangements, but also the current economic system.
4) the indigenous script, emerging particularly from Latin America and claiming an alternative visions on human rights, environment and economic development that challenges both the liberal and the neo-Marxist approaches.
Key publications
Raluca Grosescu, Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: Latin America, Central Eastern Europe and the Fragmentation of International Criminal Law (OUP, 2024)
Agata Fijalkowski and Raluca Grosescu (eds.), Transitional Criminal Justice in Post-Dictatorial and Post-Conflict Societies (Intersentia, 2015)
Raluca Grosescu and John Dale (eds.), Re-Envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Civil Society and Transnational Action (Springer, forthcoming 2025)
 New session of the "Paris IAS Ideas" online talk series, with the participation of Raluca Grosescu (National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest / Paris IAS Fellow) |
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