The U.S. Supreme Court, in a series of recent cases, has restricted personal jurisdiction over corporate defendants ― and foreign corporations in particular. The Supreme Court’s restrictions are ― although a peripheral concern ― motivated by an interest for international comity and an...

Imposing legal liability on corporations for their involvement in human rights violations remains problematic. In the United States, civil liability in such circumstances developed in a series of Alien Tort Statute cases. This evolution came to an abrupt end with the cases of Kiobel v. Royal...

The Yahoo! Inc. case illustrates the question of which law to apply to the Internet and the limits of state sovereignty in a borderless “virtual” world. In this legal dispute Yahoo! Inc. had been charged by several French associations with violating French criminal law and public order by...

Globalization and the growth of multinational enterprises (MNEs) has been accompanied by an increasing call for corporations to take responsibility for their environmental and social impacts, and for greater corporate disclosure and transparency with regard to non-financial risks (collectively...