Symposium
Details
DAY 1: 23 JANUARY 2012
08h30 – 09h00
Registration
09h00 – 09h10
Welcome
09h10 – 10h30
Session I: From Process to the Final Product
Development of the „UN Framework‟: Negotiation Strategies and Argumentative Patterns
Karin Buhmann, Associate Professor, Center for Social Science Development Research, University of Copenhagen
The “Ruggie Process”: From Legal Obligations to Corporate Social Responsibility?
Carlos Lopez, Senior Legal Advisor, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva
Questions/comments
11h00 – 12h45
Session II: Revisiting the Normative Underpinnings of the Framework
Human Rights Voluntarism: A Critique (TBC)
Upendra Baxi, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick
Exploring the Normative Underpinning of Ruggie‟s Guiding Principles
David Bilchitz, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Johannesburg; Director, SAIFAC
Treating Human Rights Lightly: A Critique of the Guiding Principles‟ Complicity in Undermining the Human Rights Obligations of Companies
Surya Deva, Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong
Questions/comments
14h00 – 15h20
Session III: Duty to Protect and Responsibility to Respect Human Rights
Will Transnational Private Regulation Close the Governance Gap? The Required Interlinkage between Pillar 1 and 2
Nicola Jägers, Associate Professor, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: Soft Law or Not Law?
Justine Nolan, Senior Lecturer & Deputy Director of the Australian Human Rights Centre, Faculty of Law, The University of New South Wales
Questions/comments
15h40 – 17h00
Session IV: Extraterritorial Obligations: Home v. Host States
Beyond the 100 Acre Wood: Navigating the Jurisdictional Jungle of Extraterritoriality
David Kinley and Daniel Augenstein, Chair in Human Rights Law, Sydney Law School and Assistant Professor, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
The Guiding Principles: Emphasising the Host State at the Expense of the Home State Judicial Mechanisms?
Tebello Thabane, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
Questions/comments
DAY 2: 24 JANUARY 2012
09h00 – 10h45
Session V: Testing the Efficacy of Proposed Remedies
Is the Right to Remedy under International Law Sufficiently Protected under the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights?
Gabriela Quijano, Adviser Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights Team, Amnesty International
Remedies (third pillar): Analysis and Practical Application for Companies with Special Reference to Case Studies Related to Oil Companies
Tineke Lambooy, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Tort Litigation against MNC Parent Companies
Richard Meeran, Partner, Leigh Day & Co., London
Questions/comments
11h15 – 13h00
Session VI: Navigating Complicity through Due Diligence
Due Diligence and Complicity: A Relationship in Need of Clarification
Sabine Michalowski, Professor, School of Law, University of Essex
Making Noise about Silent Complicity: The Moral Inconsistency of the “Protect, Respect, and Remedy” Framework
Florian Wettstein, Chair and Director Institute for Business Ethics, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Sphere of Influence and Complicity: Lost in Translation?
Juana Kweitel, Program Director, Connectas, Brazil
Questions/comments
14h00 – 15h10%%5
Session VII: Business, Gender and Socio-Economic Rights
Business, Human Rights and Gender: A Legal Approach to External and Internal Considerations
Bonita Meyersfeld, Associate Professor, University of Witwatersrand School of Law, Johannesburg
Corporate Human Rights Obligations under Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Jernej Letnar Černič, Lecturer, European Faculty of Law, Slovenia
Questions/comments
15h30 – 16h40
Session VIII: Business, Stakeholder Responsibility and Corruption
Putting the Business and Human Rights Agenda in Context: Lessons from the Anti-Corruption Sphere
Anita Ramasastry, Professor, University of Washington School of Law
The Ruggie Principles, the UN Global Compact and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Risks of Overeach and Blowback
Stuart Woolman, Professor and Elizabeth Bradley Chair of Ethics, Governance & Sustainable Development, University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Business
Questions/comments
16h40 – 17h00
Concluding remarks