Professor David Whyte

Profile

David Whyte joined Queen Mary University of London from the University of Liverpoool in 2022. He is the Director of the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice. David teaches modules on ‘Climate Justice’ and ‘Researching Powerful Organisations.’

David Whyte’s research focusses on the relationship between law and corporate power.  He has researched the regulation of business in a wide range of contexts (including working conditions, institutional fraud and corruption, economies of war and conflict,  human rights violations and ecocide. His current research focusses on legal responses to climate change, corporate accountability for climate change and climate justice in the workplace.

Research

Publications

• Whyte, D. (2020) Ecocide: kill the corporation before it kills us, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp220.
• Bernat, I and Whyte, D (eds.) (2019) Building a New Catalonia: self-determination and emancipation, Edinburgh and Barcelona: Bella Caledonia and Pol:len, pp345.
• Bittle, S., Snider, L., Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2018) Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful, Abingdon: Routledge, pp334.
• Cooper, V and Whyte, D (eds.) (2017) The Violence of Austerity, London: Pluto, pp238.
• Khoury, S and Whyte, D (2017) Corporate Human Rights Violations: Global Prospects for Legal Action, Abingdon: Routledge, pp214.
• Whyte, D. and Wiegratz, J. (eds.) (2016) Neoliberalism and the moral economy of fraud, Abingdon: Routledge, pp264.
• Whyte, D. (ed.) (2015) How Corrupt is Britain? London: Pluto, pp198.
• Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2015) The Corporate Criminal, Abingdon: Routledge, pp216.

Articles

• Moretta, A., Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2022) The Escalating Crisis of Health and Safety Law Enforcement in Great Britain: what does Brexit mean?, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19:5, 3134; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053134
• Whyte, D. (2022) Regulating Viral Capitalism: four stages in a pathology of accumulation, Justice, Power, Resistance, vol. 5, no. 1.
• Whyte, D. (2021) Follow the Money: inside the black box of the corporation, in Mair, M., Meckin, R., and Elliot, M. (eds.) Investigative methods: an NCRM collection,
• Southampton: National Centre for Research Methods, 87-96. DOI: 10.5258/NCRM/NCRM.00004551
• Khoury, S. and Whyte, D. (2021) Human Rights for Profit: the system-preserving tendencies of the regional human rights courts, Capital and Class DOI: 10.1177/03098168211005054.
• Khoury, S. and Whyte, D. (2019) Marginalising corporate human rights violations: the failure of the OECD’s regulatory consensus, Journal of Human Rights, 18:4, 363-381, DOI: 10.1080/14754835.2019.1629890.
• Cooper, V. and Whyte, D. (2018) Grenfell, Austerity and Institutional Violence, Sociological Research Online, DOI: 10.1177/1360780418800066
• Whyte, D. (2018) The Autonomous Corporation: the acceptable mask of capitalism, Kings Law Journal, 29:1, 88-110, DOI: 10.1080/09615768.2018.1475847
• Alvesalo-Kussi, A. and Whyte, D. (2018) Researching the Powerful: a call for the reconstruction of research ethics, Sociological Research Online, vol. 23, no. 1: 136-152. DOI: 10.1177/1360780417747000

Public Engagement

David Whyte is a member of the editorial board of Justice, Power, Resistance, Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime and State Crime.  He is on the executive committee of the Institute of Employment Rights, an advisory board member of Corporate Watch and a trustee of Interchange.

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