Co-authored with Ludovica Mascaretti The line between labour rights and human rights – if there ever was one – is getting increasingly...
Freshfields Sustainability
Co-authored with Alexandra Malina A landmark preliminary decision of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (decision available here) has...
On 22 November 2016, the European Parliament, Commission and Council reached an informal agreement on the final shape of an EU Regulation...
Co-authored with Alma Zadic and Emily Holland Last week representatives from Freshfields attended the fifth annual UN Forum on Business...
Co-authored with Emily Holland Nearly two weeks after the Leave vote the contours of a post-Brexit world are far from clear. We examine...
On 1 November 2016, the International Bar Association (IBA) launched the Reference Annex to the IBA Practical Guide on Business and Human...
As previously discussed in blog posts documenting the rise of supply chain legislation and the emergence of disclosure-based lawsuits,...
The 2013 Supreme Court opinion in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum radically altered the playing field for plaintiffs using the Alien Tort...
This week marks the three-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel vs. Royal Dutch Petroleum, the ruling that...
January 2016 saw what has been reported as the first conviction of a UK-based business owner for a human trafficking offence. The case...