Advocacy & analysis, litigation & arbitration: A response to Roger Alford
My response to Roger Alford’s recent post on Opinio Juris, in which he highlights a letter he wrote with colleagues in response to an earlier letter by other law professors (hosted or published by the...
View ArticleNew blog series on Business & Human Rights
I am in the process of rolling out a Huffington Post blog series on the topic of Business & Human Rights (BHR). The first two blogs introduce the topic and lay the foundation for a series of...
View ArticleNew installments to Huff Post BHR blog series
[New Parts III and IV added. Probably one more part on its way to finish it up.] “Business & Human Rights” (BHR) is an international legal and political framework, arising from the UN Guiding...
View ArticleHuff Post BHR Blog Series Complete
The fifth and final installment of The Huffington Post blog series on Business & Human Rights is now live here. A page describing the series and linking to each part is here. I have been getting...
View ArticleNew OECD complaint against ING Bank for financing coal plants etc.
Fascinating new OECD complaint by four Dutch NGOs against ING Bank for its financing of new coals plants and other projects extremely adverse to global greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts. The...
View ArticleSLAPPs Watch: Bolloré
Great show of support from civil society for the French human rights litigation org Sherpa and others. The self-explanatory paragraph: Since 2009, more than 20 defamation suits have been brought in...
View ArticleEcuadorian Constitutional Court Affirms Environmental Judgment Against Chevron
More on this to come (hopefully elaborated in other forums and venues) but here is the decision (in Spanish) and here are the basic parameters: This is the fourth Ecuadorian court to uphold the...
View ArticleFirst of hopefully many dismissals in abusive SLAPP lawsuit against DAPL...
The decision, by inimitable senior federal district judge Bill Wilson (a semi-retired judge from Arkansas sitting by designation in the District of North Dakota) dismisses all of Energy Transfer...
View ArticleBack to Basics: Revisiting Chevron’s abandoned oil fields in Ecuador — and...
A new documentary largely successfully avoids the infinite distractions generated by Chevron’s colossal retaliatory litigation campaign and re-focuses back on what happened–and what is happening today–...
View ArticleWhat counts as victory in Resolute v. Greenpeace?
Headlines from the growing anti-SLAPP movement on the recent decision by Judge Tigar in N.D. California dismissing most of Resolute’s bogus claims against Greenpeace, some of its employees, and...
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