Reynolds Taylor
Corporate Accountability Lab
Reynolds Taylor is a Legal Fellow at Corporate Accountability Lab, where she uses creative legal tools to deter labor, environmental, and human rights abuse in global supply chains. Prior to law school, Reynolds managed a portfolio of philanthropic and political action projects dedicated to advancing progressive health care and tax policy, access to housing, reproductive justice, and urban climate solutions. During law and business school, she focused her research on macro forces governing local and global markets, corporate participation in international and non-international armed conflicts, and the role of development finance institutions in exacerbating poverty, violence, and displacement in the countries where they invest. Reynolds received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Oklahoma and her M.B.A. in Finance from Northwestern Kellogg School of Management. She received her J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she served as Managing Editor on 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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