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1 Feb 2018, 10:52 am
”[14]  The worldwide expansion of human rights-related litigation in recent years is documented by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, which has established a special legal accountability port [read post]
29 Jan 2018, 11:28 pm by Kevin LaCroix
 Pursuing gatekeepers was also the most targeted and effective way of leveraging the SEC’s limited enforcement resources while also packing the most powerful punch. [read post]
18 Jan 2018, 8:47 am
These fundamental divisions form part of the current international efforts to institutionalize human rights-related norms on and through states and enterprises, and most notably through the U.N. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 12:24 pm by Matthew Kahn
Back then, I was head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, which included the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section and handled cyber investigations. [read post]
2 Jan 2018, 5:08 pm by Kevin LaCroix
For example, in February 2017, the New York Appellate Division, First Department, applying New York law, reversed a lower court’s rejection of the disclosure-only settlement of a suit that had been filed in connection with Verizon’s proposed acquisition of Vodafone subsidiaries holding ownership interests in Verizon Wireless, as discussed here. [read post]
21 Dec 2017, 6:35 pm by Supreme People's Court Monitor
Judge Jiang is among a group of senior judges at the SPC who combines an international perspective (he studied at the University of Montreal, and has been a visiting scholar at Yale Law School, University of Sydney, and Academia Sinica) with profound experience in and understanding about the Chinese court system and how it can be reformed, given its complex bureaucratic nature and the environment in which it operates. [read post]
16 Dec 2017, 8:50 am
(pix credit; here)The Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights has just been posted to the UN's website. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 4:36 pm by Kevin LaCroix
ICOs suddenly are facing a very different regulatory environment. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 11:16 am
I will first introduce the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights and the theme of access to effective remedy, then consider the relationship between human rights and environment. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 9:11 am by Errol Adams
The New York State Division of Human Rights has issued guidance for employers that explains sexual harassment as a “hostile environment” consisting of words, signs, jokes, pranks, intimidation or physical violence which are of a sexual nature . . . [read post]
28 Nov 2017, 11:58 am by Gabrielle Nagle
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division), and Representative Kathleen Rice (co-sponsor of the END Wildlife Protection Act and founding co-chair of the House Whistleblower Protection Caucus), among others. [read post]
10 Nov 2017, 4:30 am by SHG
There are nasty things, like masturbation, not to mention defecation, nature being what it is. [read post]
10 Oct 2017, 4:12 pm
Taken together, these costs allow natural resources, such as fossil fuels, to sell at a discount relative to their competitors. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 8:46 am by Jay Levine and Devan Flahive
Cost savings and other economic benefits are seen as socially desirable and increase efficient use of scarce resources. [read post]