Growth and structure of TNCs -- Victims' rights to remedy for business-related human rights violations -- Barriers to judicial remedies in host countries -- Limits on subject matter jurisdiction over international human rights violations -- Limited liability of parent corporations -- Lack of...

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...

A disclosure -based framework is at the heart of U.S. securities regulation. This paper examines this model's emphasis on disclosure and discuss why it is inherently flawed. Specifically, the disclosure model is outdated and does not seem to reflect the current trading patterns that dominate the...

Video of George Floyd’s death sparked global demonstrations and prompted individuals, communities and institutions to grapple with their own roles in embedding and perpetuating racist structures. The raison d’être of Business and Human Rights (BHR) is to tackle structural corporate...

With the endorsement of the Guiding Principles regarding the issue of business and human rights, an important chapter has come to a close. Beginning with the then U.N. Secretary General's "global compact" speech in 1999, the international legal framework for business and human rights has...

Transnational corporations (TNCs) are unique in the international arena. They are not state actors, and do not create law as state actors do. Neither however, are they like individuals, who having been the victim of human rights abuses too often in the past, now command their own special...

The adoption of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in 2011 marked a watershed moment, establishing the first global standards for preventing human rights abuses by business. In light of this paradigm shift, The Business and Human Rights Landscape offers the most...