2026 ECGI Law Prize Winners in conversation with Amir Licht

The 2026 Law Prize sponsored by WRDS has been awarded to Luca Enriques (Bocconi University and ECGI), Matteo Gatti (Rutgers Law School and ECGI) and Roy Shapira (Reichman (IDC) and ECGI) for their paper on: “How the EU Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Could Reshape Corporate America” (ECGI Law Working Paper 817/2025).

Law Series Editor, Amir Licht (Reichman University) interviews the winners on their prize paper.

Selected by the Working Paper Series Law Editorial Board, the paper traces how a single piece of European legislation — the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, or CS3D — interacts with the American legal system in ways that could fundamentally change how large US corporations govern themselves on human rights and environmental issues. It bridges two bodies of law that rarely speak to each other: EU regulatory law and Delaware corporate law. The paper shows that their combination is more potent than either alone, and it identifies a new mechanism through which European regulation can reshape not just what companies sell, but how they operate across their entire global supply chains.