Business and human rights

Talk on Colonisation, and Business and Human Rights at Tilburg University
SLIC* collaboration with NEXOS
Mexico's Civil Litigation Against US Gun Manufacturers and Dealers for Cartel Violence: Developing a Standard of Corporate Complicity in Gross Human Rights Violations
Mexico v. Smith & Wesson: How Should US Courts Approach the Issue of Proximate Cause in Tort Cases Against Gun Manufacturers?
Human Rights Due Diligence is the Future: Corporate Perspectives (1 June, 15:00-17:00)
Risky Business: will TotalEnergies be complicit in international crimes if it continues doing business in Russia?
Civil liability in the EU proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: a leap forward or stifling progress?
A clear risk of what? The Egyptian navy, the Dutch arms export policy and linguistic inconsistencies in the EU Common Position
The Promise of Shareholder Rebellions for Business and Human Rights
‘Knock Knock’: On respect for autonomy as a criterion for rules of secondary liability
Shell/Nigeria: the fight over secondary liability of parent companies over corporate human rights violations by their subsidiaries
Access to supply chain information: stopped at the border by customs?
Establishing secondary liability by creating transparency: a role for civil society?
Money as Complicity: Can banking and finance services facilitate international crimes?
Re-reviving the Alien Tort Statute for Human Rights Claims
Putting an End to the Application of Foreign Law in Cross-Border Tort Cases for Serious Human Rights Violations?
Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Liability Gap, Part One: Introduction to Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Criminal Liability
The UK Vedanta Case and Parent Company Liability
Bringing Transnational Human Rights Torts Cases Against Powerful Actors of the Global North
Human Rights Due Diligence: Turning Ideals into Law
News
08.05.2023
Jindan-Karena Mann & Nicky Touw

Talk on Colonisation, and Business and Human Rights at Tilburg University

On Wednesday, 26 April 2023, Rethinking SLIC* team members Jindan-Karena (‘Nina’) Mann and Nicky Touw presented at a symposium on ‘Colonisation in, of and through Business & Human Rights’ which was
Criminal law
23.11.2023
Göran Sluiter

Are Dutch government officials complicit in war crimes committed by Israel?

Recent coverage by the NRC Handelsblad reveals that the Netherlands supplies spare parts for Israel's F35s – a type of combat aircraft. Despite warnings from legal advisers that through this supply
Criminal law
19.10.2023
Marc Tiernan

Are Social Media Algorithms “Passive Nonfeasance”? What Twitter v. Taamneh Got Wrong

On 18 May 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed claims that Facebook, Twitter, and Google knowingly assisted an ISIS attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey in 2017. In the case Twitter,
Criminal law
01.08.2023
Tomas Hamilton

Transnational ne bis in idem for corporate involvement in international crimes: the Lafarge proceedings in the U.S. and France

*This post was originally published on Opinio Juris on 28 July 2023, available at:
Criminal law
11.07.2023
Tomas Hamilton

Could the U.S. Lafarge Settlement provide Reparations for Victims of ISIL?

*This post was originally published on EJIL: Talk! on 3 July 2023, available at: https://www.ejiltalk.org/could-the-lafarge-settlement-provide-reparations-for-victims-of-isil/ On 18 October 2022,