Mark Taylor

Author of War Economies and International Law

Mark B. Taylor is an analyst and researcher focused on human rights, illicit financial flows, international crimes, and responsible business. For two decades, Mark’s research and investigation into war economies and regulatory options for corporate accountability has been the basis for case building as well as advice to governments, civil society, trade unions, and companies.

Until the end of 2023, Mark was a senior analyst at the Clooney Foundation for Justice, where he led investigations and case building on commercial and other enablers of international crimes for The Docket. Before that, Mark held research and management positions at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo, where his subjects ranged from strategic litigation, business and human rights, and sustainability in global value chains. Mark was a member of the expert group of the Corporate Crimes and Human Rights Project as well as a government-appointed committee in Norway on supply chain transparency, and sits on the advisory councils of several social movement organisations. His most recent publication is War Economies and International Law: Regulating the Economic Activities of Violent Conflict (Cambridge, 2021). Mark holds a B.A. from McGill University, Montreal, an LL.M from Leiden University in the Netherlands and a DPhil from the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.