A Book Celebration & Conversation With Author Erika George
TALK DESCRIPTION:
Professor
of Law Erika George’s book considers market-based strategies to bring
business practices into alignment with the responsibility to respect
human rights. It also explores how corporate social responsibility
initiatives could close a global governance gap that currently places
human rights at risk—and that puts commercial actors in the position of
becoming complicit in human rights abuses. George examines corporate
codes of conduct, sustainability reporting, shareholder activism, and
multi-stakeholder initiatives that could become the building blocks of a
set of baseline standards for better business practices.
To mark the 10th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business
and Human Rights, a panel of experts will join George for a
conversation on overcoming challenges and promoting change. Panelists
will take stock of current and emerging efforts to advance
accountability and leverage leadership.
Purchase the book from Oxford University Press (enter promotion code ALAUTHC4 to save 30%).
ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
Erika George is Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law and director of the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah’s College of Humanities. Her research explores
the responsibility of corporations to respect international human
rights and various efforts to hold business enterprises accountable for
alleged abuses. George is chair of the Advisory Board of the American
Bar Association Center for Human Rights. She serves on the Board of
Trustees of Earthjustice and is a member of the Fair Labor Association Board.
She is a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge University
Press Business and Human Rights Journal. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and was recently elected to the American Law Institute. Before joining Utah, she was a fellow with Human Rights Watch in New York and practiced commercial litigation with Jenner & Block in Chicago.
Philip Alston
is special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights at the United
Nations Human Rights Council’s Office of the High Commissioner. Alston was appointed special rapporteur in June 2014 by the Human Rights Council.
Born and educated in Australia (law and economics) and with a doctorate
from the University of California, he is an international law scholar
and human rights practitioner. He is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of
Law at New York University School of Law
and has previously taught at various law schools around the world,
including the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard Law School,
Australian National University, and the European University Institute.
Surya Deva
is professor at the City University of Hong Kong Macquarie Law School
Member, and member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights.
Surya Deva is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of business and human rights. He a member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights.
Deva has advised UN agencies, governments, multinational corporations,
and civil society organizations on issues related to business and human
rights. He also researches in the areas of India-China constitutional
law, international human rights law, sustainable development, and gender
dimensions of new technologies. Deva has published extensively in areas
of his research expertise.
Bennett Freeman is principal at Bennett Freeman Associates LLC. Freeman
advises multinational corporations, foundations, and NGOs on
international human rights and labor rights. He is chair of the advisory
board of Global Witness; co-founder and board secretary of the Global Network Initiative; chair of the advisory board of the Responsible Sourcing Network; and serves on the governing board of the Natural Resources Governance Institute. He co-founded and serves on the board of advisors of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark.
Ryan Gellert is chief executive officer of Patagonia Works and Patagonia, Inc.
Prior to his appointment to this global role, Ryan spent six years as
Patagonia’s general manager of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
During that time, he elevated Patagonia to a position of leadership in
Europe’s outdoor industry and environmental communities, overseeing all
sales, marketing, environmental and operational activities for the
brand. An avid climber and backcountry snowboarder, Ryan has climbed and
ridden all over the world. He has extensive experience working with
direct action environmental groups, having served on the boards of Access Fund, Protect Our Winters, the European Outdoor Group and the Soil Heroes Foundation. In addition, he was a founding individual member of 1% for the Planet.
Ryan holds a JD from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University
of Utah; an MBA from the Florida Institute of Technology; and a BSBA in
finance from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Fernanda Hopenhaym is co-executive director at Project on Organizing, Development, Education and Research (PODER),
an organization in Latin America dedicated to corporate accountability.
For twenty years, Ms. Hopenhaym has worked on economic, social and
gender justice. She also works to advance corporate accountability and
strengthen respect for human rights vis-a-vis private and public
investments or development projects, and private sector operations with
attention to local communities affected by public/private projects in
their pursuit of justice and remedy. She has conducted advocacy globally
and in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region leading
capacity building trainings on business and human rights related issues.
She is the Chair of the Board of ESCRNet, the international network for economic, social and cultural rights; board member of EarthRights International and an adviser to the Business and Human Rights Award Foundation. Since November 1, she is the LAC member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights.
Moderator:
Tony Anghie is professor of law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law and the National University of Singapore.
His research interests include public international law, international
economic law, human rights and the history and theory of international
law, and he has published in each of these areas. He has served as a
visiting professor at various universities including the University of
Tokyo, the London School of Economics, the American University of Cairo
and Harvard Law School. He has also served as a counselor and as a
member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. He is a co-editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law. He is a member of the Third World Approaches (TWAIL) network of scholars.
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