Corporate Accountability Lab

👏Please welcome our new Senior Staff Attorney, Elise Meyer!

⚖️ Elise brings with her nearly a decade of experience advancing human rights in the U.S. and abroad. In prior roles, she has fought against the death penalty, unfair labor practices, and unconstitutional conditions of confinement. She joins us after serving as the Michael and Mary Schuette Clinical Fellow in Health and Human Rights at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where she co-instructed the International Human Rights and Practice Clinic, the Health and Human Rights seminar, and the Corruption in the Era of Climate Change seminar.

🗡️Elise is also a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan, so we’re thrilled to add another Slayer to the team fighting global corporate impunity!

Last week, CAL Special Advisor and former U.S. International Trade Commissioner Dean Pinkert testified before Congress on forced labor in China’s seafood sector.

Read his entire testimony or you can watch the hearing in full at our link in bio.

More coverage from Business and Human Rights Centre on our false advertising case against !
Read the case press release at the link in bio.

CAL and sued giant shrimp producer in D.C. Superior Court for false and deceptive marketing under the Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA).

The lawsuit alleges that the supply chain is riddled with environmentally destructive practices and exploitative labor practices, including forced labor, hazardous working conditions, and unfair and unlivable wages. Despite clear evidence of these conditions, touts social and environmental programs and labels to market their products as “responsibly sourced” and state that they engage in “fair labor practices.” These programs and labels do little to guarantee sustainability in the shrimp supply chain, where many workers live on poverty wages, work in unsanitary conditions, and receive unlivable housing.

Companies like need to stop exploiting shrimp workers, harming the environment, and misleading consumers.

Read our press release and blog in the lawsuit at the link in bio.

Last week, CAL and sued in Washington, D.C., calling out the company’s false and deceptive marketing of its shrimp products as responsibly and sustainably sourced. Aqua Star is one of the world’s largest shrimp producers, sourcing its product from companies documented to use exploitative working conditions and environmentally destructive practices. Our lawsuit alleges that Aqua Star’s supply chain is riddled with unsustainable and harmful practices and its marketing therefore violates D.C.’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act.

🦐🦀🦞Attn Boston!🐟🐙🦑

CAL senior staff attorney Allie Brudney will be speaking at the on March 15th! She will be sharing her expertise on human rights issues in seafood supply chains and why certification schemes fail to protect workers (or the environment).

We’re still accepting applications for our open Senior Staff Attorney position! Priority will be given to those submitted by 1/31.

Head to the link in bio for more details!

Tell your friends! Tell your colleagues! Tell your mom! We’re looking for a Senior Staff Attorney to join our team. Read more at the link in bio.