January 2022 | European Papers

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
Internal Market - Freedoms of Movement and Competition Law, Companies, The European Integration Through Human Rights, Protection of human rights in Europe