Reynolds Taylor
Run on Power
Reynolds Taylor is a human rights lawyer and organizer, focused on holding corporations liable for abusive conduct and corruption in their domestic and international supply chains. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Run on Power, a nonprofit organization supporting local and state candidates running on platforms challenging corporate power, and the Founder and Executive Director of Power Law & Policy Lab, a nonprofit organization dedicated to redesigning the corporate form. As Founder of RT Human Rights & Policy Consulting, Reynolds also serves as an advisor to other advocacy groups committed to reimagining legal and market structures. Previously, Reynolds was a staff attorney with Global Labor Justice and Corporate Accountability Lab, as well as a legal advisor to The Signals Network.
She received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Oklahoma, her M.B.A. in Finance from Northwestern Kellogg School of Management, and her J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. During law school, she served as Managing Editor of the Northwestern Journal of Human Rights and was awarded the Schuette Global Fellowship in Health and Human Rights.
The ATS Clarification Act Can Protect Human Rights and Level the Playing Field for U.S. Businesses
As previously reported on TLB, Senators Durbin (D-IL) and Brown (D-OH) recently introduced the Alien Tort Statute Clarification Act (ATSCA), which, if passed, will clarify the extraterritorial reach of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and expand the statute’s jurisdiction to cover all defendants “present in” the United States. The ATS is one of our nation’s…
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