Access to remedy for victims of corporate human rights abuse: Enforceability in transnational civil litigation

Economic and supply chain globalization have had both positive and negative consequences. These negative consequences include corporate human rights violations and adverse environmental impacts. In recent years, victims of such adverse human rights and environmental impacts have increasingly relied on transnational civil litigation, including before courts in Europe This raises the under-researched question of how judgments and settlements resulting from such transnational civil liability cases are enforced across borders and to what extent they provide victims with an effective remedy in practice. This research project aims to answer these questions, through an analysis of the legal framework on cross-border enforcement on the one hand and in-depth case studies into selected transnational corporate civil liability cases on the other. The poster presents this project and some preliminary findings.