[{"id":128,"title":"Building a Climate Change Litigation Database","sha":"14f8f943b33c6e9ddd2323313630170a","user_id":391,"state":"published","body":"Recently, The Guardian reported on a case brought by a Peruvian plaintiff against German energy company RWE over fears of effects of climate change (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/16/peruvian-farmer-demands-climate-compensation-from-german-company) in which the energy company is brought to court as a polluter. With this case, German courts will enter new territory and it remains to be seen if German law actually allows such claims to be successful. One problem in this context will be to prove causality. German law will hardly be alone with this and related problems as climate change-related damage will often not be covered by existing rules of tort law. By engaging in successful litigation against polluting companies, the price of doing business which is harmful for the climate can be increased. It will therefore be useful to collect cases on domestic climate change litigation.","created_at":"2015-03-25T19:41:54.054Z","updated_at":"2015-03-30T07:29:55.149Z","zenodo_id":25711,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16371","subject":null,"tags":["climate","climate change","law","court","litigation","database","peru","germany"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":1027,"title":"The Strategic Depth Theory of Diversity \u0026 Inclusion","sha":"eaaaba5c2f279de4f24b6b1f9a355a9b","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"It would be easy to assume that the increase in workplace Diversity and Inclusion programs was caused by corporate executives becoming more politically progressive. Is this even true? Per Fos, Kempf, and Tsoutsoura (2022), approximately; 69 % of corporate executives identify as Republicans. If this uptick in D\u0026I programs is not connected political orientation of leadership, what can explain this phenomenon? One potential cause for this shift could be firms wanting to avoid discrimination lawsuits. Lawsuits are monetarily costly and detrimental to the company’s reputation and impact future sales.\r\n\r\n\r\nThis is what the Strategic Depth Theory of  Diversity  \u0026 Inclusion attempts to answer.  Strategic Depth is a concept from military strategy; defined as “… the distances between the front lines or battle sectors and the combatants’ industrial core areas, capital cities, heartlands, and other key centers of population or military production...\" (Harkavy, 2001). Similar to how Israel gained Strategic Depth from the acquisition of the Westbank (Eisenkot, 1997), corporations obtain this geopolitical advantage by distancing themselves from the litigious incident by cultivating  D\u0026I programs. The Executives can then claim that the firm does not condone discriminatory behavior, effectively creating distance between the plaintiff and the firm.","created_at":"2022-11-27T03:11:05.144Z","updated_at":"2023-02-07T14:00:26.898Z","zenodo_id":7370019,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7370019","subject":null,"tags":["strategic depth","military strategy","diversity \u0026 inclusion","geopolitics","litigation","corporate governance"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]