Research Project

Impact and outcomes of strategic litigation in home state of transnational corporations

Principal Investigator
Justin Poonjatt
This project is in partnership with Amnesty International (International Secretariat)
This project will examine the impact and outcomes of past and current strategic litigation pursued in the home state of respondent transnational corporations that sought corporate civil and/or criminal accountability. This will include assessing the impacts of promoting, vindicating and ensuring effective remedies for the litigants and the tangible outcomes of several lawsuits filed against multinational companies in their home states across different jurisdictions.

Amnesty International is an international non-governmental human rights organisation and a movement of over 10 million members, activists and supporters in more than 150 countries and territories. It is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest, or religion. Amnesty International’s mission is to advocate for global compliance with international human rights law, the development of human rights norms, and the effective enjoyment of human rights by all persons. To do so, Amnesty International monitors state compliance with international human rights law and engages in research, advocacy, strategic litigation, and education to prevent and end human rights violations and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.