Paper/Proposal Title
Innovations in Corporate Accountability
Location
Innovations in Corporate Accountability
Start Date
10-3-2019 9:00 AM
End Date
10-3-2019 10:30 AM
Abstract
Where corporate actors are behind human rights abuse, how do we hold them accountable? How can victims access remedy, and what means do we have to deter corporate crime? This dynamic conversation will explore the potential emergent strategies in the field of human rights that aim to address the shortfalls of past efforts, and consider the many challenges that remain.
Author/Speaker Biographical Statement(s)
Paul Rissman, co-founder of the Rights CoLab, is an Open Society Foundations Fellow and works with the Sierra Club Foundation on using shareholder advocacy to move universal investors to respect human rights and redress inequality. This is the project of his OSF Fellowship.
Since 2008, Joanne Bauer has been an adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University, where she founded the SIPA Business and Human Rights Clinic and leads the Business and Human Rights Program of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Her work with Rights CoLab builds on her 25-year career of human rights research, publication, advocacy, and teaching, and spans two areas: 1) re-aligning the role of business in society by examining the market potential of alternative corporate structures and 2) improving investor responsiveness to human rights through research, dialogue, and advocacy. Throughout her career, she has collaborated around the world to advance human rights ideas and advocacy methods.
Charity Ryerson is a co-founder and Legal Director at Corporate Accountability Lab.
Paul Rissman: https://rightscolab.org/people/paul-rissman-2/
Joanne Bauer: https://rightscolab.org/people/joanne-bauer-2/
Charity Ryerson: https://legaldesign.org/our-team
Innovations in Corporate Accountability
Innovations in Corporate Accountability
Where corporate actors are behind human rights abuse, how do we hold them accountable? How can victims access remedy, and what means do we have to deter corporate crime? This dynamic conversation will explore the potential emergent strategies in the field of human rights that aim to address the shortfalls of past efforts, and consider the many challenges that remain.
