Larry Catá Backer's comments on current issues in transnational law and policy. These essays focus on the constitution of regulatory communities (political, economic, and religious) as they manage their constituencies and the conflicts between them. The context is globalization. This is an academic field-free zone: expect to travel "without documents" through the sometimes strongly guarded boundaries of international relations, constitutional, international, comparative, and corporate law.
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Sara Seck and Surya Deva: Course "2021 Summer/Winter School: Business, Human Rights, and the Environment" (25 June 2021)
The course will be taught by the Schulich School of Law's incomparable Sara Seck, with an incisive discussion by the UN Working Group and City University of Hong Kong's Surya Deva.
This course will take place on 25 June 2021 at 1pm CEST. Register for this class here.
Course Description, Recommended Readings (all worth reading even if you are unable to attend the course) and short bios of Professors Seck and Deva follow below.
This course will take place on 25 June 2021 at 1pm CEST. Register for this class here.
Course Description:
This class will consider the implications of the field of business
and human rights (BHR) for the prevention and remedy of environmental
human rights harms. The class will begin with an introduction to the
three pillars of the 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights: the state duty to protect, the business responsibility to
respect, and access to remedy. Other related international responsible
business conduct standards that clarify the responsibility of businesses
to respect and support environmental human rights, including human
rights defenders, will then be introduced, along with developments in
due diligence laws. The class will conclude by reflecting on the
challenges and promises of access to remedy in light of recent
transnational environmental corporate accountability cases, the lack of
ratifications of existing environmental liability conventions, and the
BHR treaty process.
Sara L Seck, “Lessons for the Treaty Process from the International
Law Commission and International Environmental Law” in Jernej Letnar
Černič and Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli, eds, The Future of Business and Human Rights: Theoretical and Practical Considerations for a UN Treaty, (Intersentia, 2018) 273-298: https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/scholarly_works/207/
Sara L Seck is an Associate Professor with the Schulich School of Law
and Marine & Environmental Law Institute at Dalhousie University,
Canada. She teaches and researches at the intersection of international
human rights and environmental law, with particular attention to the
business and human rights dimensions. She is North American director of
the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), a
member of the Teaching Business & Human Rights Forum, and a member
of the editorial board of the Business and Human Rights Journal. More
about her research can be found on the Schulich Law digital commons.
Discussant:
Surya Deva
is an Associate Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong
Kong, and the current Vice Chair of the UN Working Group on Business
and Human Rights. Professor Deva’s primary research interests lie in
Business and Human Rights, India-China Constitutional Law, and
Sustainable Development. He has published extensively in these areas.
Professor Deva is one of the founding Editors-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal, and sits on the Editorial/Advisory Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, the Indian Law Review, and the Australian Journal of Human Rights.
Sara L Seck is an Associate Professor with the Schulich School of Law and Marine & Environmental Law Institute at Dalhousie University, Canada. She teaches and researches at the intersection of international human rights and environmental law, with particular attention to the business and human rights dimensions. She is North American director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), a member of the Teaching Business & Human Rights Forum, and a member of the editorial board of the Business and Human Rights Journal. More about her research can be found on the Schulich Law digital commons.
Surya Deva is an Associate Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, and the current Vice Chair of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. Professor Deva’s primary research interests lie in Business and Human Rights, India-China Constitutional Law, and Sustainable Development. He has published extensively in these areas. Professor Deva is one of the founding Editors-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal, and sits on the Editorial/Advisory Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, the Indian Law Review, and the Australian Journal of Human Rights.
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