The Role of Soft-Law in Adjudicating Corporate Human Rights Abuses: Interpreting the Alien Tort Statute in the Light of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

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Elena Corcione

Abstract: In the last years, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) has been used as main reference for human rights litigation against corporations in the US. However, subsequent interpretation of the ATS by the US Supreme Court has progressively narrowed its scope of application, so that now it hardly can be considered as a viable legal basis for claims...

European Papers, 20.01.2022 | Posted in
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Emergency Measures Against GMOs 
Between Harmonizing and De-harmonizing
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Elena Corcione

Abstract: This Insight comments on the preliminary ruling in the case Fidenato et al. (judgment of 13 September 2017, case C-111/16), in which the Court of Justice excluded that Member States may rely on the precautionary principle enshrined in Art. 7 of Regulation 178/2002 to adopt emergency measures against the cultivation of...

European Papers, 19.03.2018 | Posted in
The Constitutional Dimension of the European Union, The institutional system, EU Policies and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Union Policies

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