The Cambridge Handbook of Litigating Business and Human Rights Violations

Hassan Ahmad works at the intersection of business and human rights and strategic litigation and is the author of Judicial Corporate Governance in the Global Economy: Colonial and Contemporary Realities (in press). He has received awards from the American Society of International Law and the American Society of Comparative Law. Ekaterina Aristova is an academic and a lawyer specialising in the field of business and human rights. She is the author of Tort Litigation against Transnational Corporations: The Challenge of Jurisdiction in English Courts (2024). Ekaterina holds positions at Surrey Law School, the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in Oxford, and the Honourable Society of Middle Temple. Rachel Chambers holds positions at the University of Connecticut School of Business and Columbia Law School. Her research focuses on business and human rights, with particular emphasis on corporate accountability. She is co-author of Transnational Corporations and Human Rights: Overcoming Barriers to Judicial Remedy (Cambridge, 2020). Her work is widely published in peer-reviewed journals, and she serves in a number of editorial roles, including on the Business and Human Rights Journal.

• 1. Introduction: the evolving landscape of business and human rights litigation Rachel Chambers, Hassan Ahmad and Ekaterina Aristova; Part I. Paradoxes of Business and Human Rights Litigation: 2. Corporate accountability through private strategic litigation Daniel Marín-López and Tricia Olsen; 3. Access to effective remedy? The deficiencies of civil litigation for corporate accountability Ebony Birchall; 4. Addressing power imbalances in transnational business and human rights litigation Oyeniyi Abe; Part II. Case Studies: 5. Business and human rights litigation in the United States: as one door closes, others open William S. Dodge; 6. Litigating human rights harm in global value chains: evolving pathways to corporate accountability Anil Yilmaz Vastardis and Emma Baldi; 7. Litigating land: access to remedy in mining-induced displacement and dispossession Sara Ghebremusse; 8. Litigating business involvement in arbitrary land takings: lessons from Cambodia's agribusiness sector Socheata Sao; 9. Litigating the Samarco Dam disaster: national and transnational cases, outcomes, and implications Karin Buhmann, Danielle Anne Pamplona, Julia Mello Neiva, Cláudia Alvarenga Marconi and Alberto Fonseca; 10. Environmental litigation in Thailand Sarah Bishop, Songkrant Pongboonjun and Thitinant Tengaumnuay; 11. Transnational environmental litigation in Taiwan: a bright spot in business and human rights law Uglješa Grušić and Sung-Mao Huang; 12. The (r)evolution of corporate accountability through climate litigation: a business and human rights perspective Ivano Alogna, Maria Alejandra Serra and Michelle Jonker-Argueta; 13. Ecuadorian rights of nature litigation as a species of business and human rights litigation Malcolm Rogge; 14. Corporate conflict litigation: a viable pathway to peace, justice or accountability? Jonathan Kolieb; 15. Corporate accountability for wrongful arms transfers León Castellanos-Jankiewicz; Part III. Perspectives: 16. Litigating corporate accountability: lessons from transnational practice in England Oliver Holland and Mélanie Jacques; 17. The damaging impact of Canada's Forum Non Conveniens doctrine on access to justice for Global South claimants Joe Fiorante, Jen Winstanley and Matt Eisenbrandt; 18. Benevolent brands and vulnerable victims: corporate accountability for occupational harm after Rana Plaza Taqbir Huda; 19. Legal activism and the role of civil society organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo Anaïs Tobalagba and Josué Kashal; 20. Climate litigation meets due diligence: the promise and limits of the French Vigilance Law for corporate climate accountability Virginie Rouas and Brice Laniyan; 21. Defining 'human rights harm' in practice: the uncertainty underpinning business and human rights tort litigation Yousuf Aftab and Maria Luisa Saboya; 22. Institutional investors and human rights litigation Steven Friel and Lara Blecher; 23. The role of third-party litigation funding in litigating business and human rights violations Markus Lieberknecht and Mauritius Nagelmueller.