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Shareholders’ Just Transition Activism
Professor Barnali Choudhury writes on the evolving dynamics of corporate responsibility, with a particular focus on how legal and governance frameworks intersect with pressing global challenges. In this piece, she explores the shifting momentum around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. Once a dominant force in corporate strategy, ESG is now facing political headwinds and […]
Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal -
Current Issue: Volume 45, Issue 2 (2025) Volume 45, Number 2 (Summer 2025)The Right to StrikeGuest editors: Tonia Novitz, Katherine Fitzpatrick, & Jeffrey Vogt The Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal (CLLPJ) provides a venue for leading scholarship in international labour law and the comparative analysis of labour law, employment policy, and social security issues. […]
Judicial Lawmaking in the New Frontiers of Canadian Corporate Social Litigation
Professor Hassan Ahmad is undertaking this two-year SSHRC-funded project to identify the doctrinal and conceptual challenges and opportunities that arise from nascent and even novel types of domestic and transnational harm caused by Canadian corporations. The project aims to provide a foundation for a judicially-based framework of corporate liability for harms incurred as a result […]
Double Standards and International Law: Highlights from the Workshop in Geneva
Summary by Puhiza Shemsedini The Nathanson Centre supported a three-day workshop titled “How and Why Do Double Standards Matter for International Law?” co-organized by Nathanson Centre Fellow David Hughes alongside Patryk Labuda (Central European University), Nico Krish (Geneva Graduate Institute), Naz Modirzadeh (Harvard Law School), and Dustin Lewis (Harvard Law School). From May 15 to […]
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March
5
Crisis: The Law’s Response
Crisis (noun) a : an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending especially : one with the distinct possibility of a highly undesirable outcome b: a situation that has reached a critical phase Are we in a state of crisis? Everything from Trump’s potential invasion of […]
February
12
Screening: The Tribunal / El tribunal A documentary film by Malcolm Rogge
The Tribunal, a 28-minute documentary about human rights and international investment law, is a powerful affirmation of the strength of affected communities and a blistering critique of the international investor arbitration system. Rogge does not hit you over the head with his message; instead, he communicates through the words of local farmers, activists, and educators […]
February
5
YOUTH CLIMATE LITIGATION IN CANADA: A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE MATHUR CASE
The panel will include Ecojustice lawyers Julia Croome and Fraser Thomson commenting on the recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision, what’s next for the case, and how the climate litigation scene in Canada is evolving. Panelists: Julia Croome & Fraser Thomson, Ecojustice Professor Dayna Nadine Scott will act as discussant Co-sponsored by the […]
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