(To read the full Policy Tip Sheet, click here.) Key Takeaways: The European Union’s new ESG law—the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)—is designed to transform business practices across the entire world, including in the United States. The CSDDD mandates that large businesses impose ESG standards on companies operating within their “chain of activities,” regardless of whether those “chain” businesses have operations within the European Union. Some of the policy […]
Monthly Archives: September 2024
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(To read the full Policy Tip Sheet, click here.) Key Takeaways: The Uniform Law Commission (ULC) has drafted a model bill—the Public-Health Emergency Authority Act (PHEAA)—that would both formally institutionalize the executive emergency powers wielded by state governors during the COVID-19 pandemic while also significantly strengthening them. Considering the ULC’s established degradations of individual rights and societal welfare, policymakers should tread carefully when considering anything the ULC promotes. This is […]
(To view the full Policy Brief, click here) Key Takeaways: The proposed 2022 amendments to Articles 9 and 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code strip individuals of their property rights to real-world assets. The entities responsible for the UCC’s governance consist of partisan actors who serve special interests. The UCC has already been used to abrogate property rights to investment securities through amendments to Article 8. The 2022 amendments facilitate […]