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Human Trafficking In Multinational Supply Chains: A Corporate Director's Fiduciary Duty To Monitor And Eliminate Human Trafficking Violations, Laura Ezell

Vanderbilt Law Review

Corporate directors cannot afford to remain ignorant of human trafficking violations in corporate supply chains.' Corporations in the United States that benefit from supply-chain trafficking have been able to escape liability when the trafficking occurs in the labor force of their suppliers instead of the labor force of the corporation itself. However, the 2008 reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act specifically targets this behavior under its criminal and civil provisions regarding financial benefit from labor trafficking. Corporations with trafficking violations in their supply chains risk criminal prosecution and civil suits filed by foreign and domestic victims, and the directors …