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A Year Later, Reports of the China Initiative’s “Death” May Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

The Department of Justice announced on February 23, 2022, that it would no longer be “grouping cases under the China Initiative rubric,” which many in the press presented as the end of the China Initiative program. But as...more

Congress Moves to Combat Use of Forced Labor in Supply Chain

Senators Josh Hawley and Kristen Gillibrand re-introduced new legislation on February 3, 2022, aimed at combatting the use of forced labor in supply chains worldwide. This move comes on the heels of the December 2021 passage,...more

The Growing Importance of ESG-Related Supply Chain Due Diligence

There is an increasing legislative trend towards holding companies accountable for their own ESG practices as well as those of business partners within their supply chain. ...more

Supreme Court Holds Alien Tort Statute Inapplicable to Extraterritorial Acts Alleged to Aid & Abet Child Slavery

Key Takeaways - In its just-issued opinion in Nestle USA, Inc. v. Doe, No. 19-416, slip op. (2021), the Supreme Court reaffirmed its holding from Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 569 U. S. 108 (2013), that the Alien Tort...more

U.S. Executive and Legislative Branches Raise the Heat on Slave Labor and Trade Law Violations

Weeks ago, on September 14 2020, the Trump Administration made news by announcing a ban on the importation of certain products made in China’s Xinjiang region, where widespread human rights abuses—including slave labor work...more

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