Cor­por­ate li­ab­il­ity for human-rights abuses in supply chains

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Matěj Malý ad­dresses cor­por­ate li­ab­il­ity under private in­ter­na­tion­al law for fun­da­ment­al human-rights vi­ol­a­tions oc­cur­ring in the supply chains of European com­pan­ies or their sub­si­di­ar­ies in the Global South. It fo­cuses on the de­term­in­a­tion of in­ter­na­tion­al jur­is­dic­tion and ap­plic­able law in claims brought against EU-domiciled parent com­pan­ies or major buyers.

The ana­lys­is states that es­tab­lish­ing jur­is­dic­tion is gen­er­ally not dif­fi­cult where the com­pany is dom­i­ciled in the EU, where­as the ap­plic­able law will typ­ic­ally be that of a non-EU coun­try under the Rome II Reg­u­la­tion. It also dis­cusses the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the CS3D in Czech law and the ab­ol­i­tion of its EU-wide civil-liability regime by the 2026 amend­ment, which leaves civil li­ab­il­ity to the Member States.