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UN Draft Treaty on Transnational Business Enterprises and Human Rights in the Making: Raising the Global Bar in Corporate Litigation

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This holds for tort law (liability), criminal law, and administrative law. This is an important point, as the Draft Treaty leaves it up to the State Parties to determine whether the human rights violations are best dealt with in administrative, criminal, or civil law (Art.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court found that the Commission adequately explained its rationale for rejecting the dollar figure adopted by the administrative law judge. The MPF brought a tort case against de Rezende for causing the deforestation of 2,488.56

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