The Milieudefensie et al v Royal Dutch Shell plc. landmark ruling establishes for the first time direct environmental liabilities linked to local damages caused by global emissions and deems a single company partially responsible for climate change, opening corporations to new legal jeopardy...

For over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada's oil industry. From Petrolia to Turner Valley, Imperial was always nearby and ready to take charge. Their 1947 discovery of crude oil in Leduc, Alberta transformed the industry and the country. But from 1899 onwards, two-thirds of the company...

This case study explores the corporate criminal liability of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) for complicity in the Darfur genocide in Sudan. Together with theoretical elements published elsewhere, this paper builds the prosecution's case as an example of the type of litigation...