My dear friend and colleague Chiara Macchi (Assistant Professor of Law (Tenure Track); Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Corporate Sustainability and Human Rights Law; Wageningen University – Law Group) also on behalf of Angelica Bonfanti, Marta Bordignon and Marco Fasciglione, has just distributed information about the 2025 Business and Human Rights Summer School (an undertaking that is now in its 8th year) which I am delighted to pass along:
Course description and program information follows below.I’m very happy to announce the dates for the 8th edition of the Summer
School Business and Human Rights, taking place on June 23-27, 2025. I’m
even happier to announce it will take place in my home town, Pisa, at the
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, with the generous collaboration of Dr
Giuseppe di Vetta.
The application link is already active and can be found here, together with
all deadlines and fees:
https://www.santannapisa.it/en/alta-formazione/BHR-Summer-School-2024-2025
We are working on the programme, which will be published in the next few
weeks, once most of our invited speakers will have confirmed their
participation. I will share it with you then. In the meantime, the
programmes of the past editions can be found on the Summer School’s
website: https://www.bhrsummerschool.com/
Please, circulate to anyone who might be interested, keeping in mind that
the Summer School can be relevant to both academics and practitioners.
Business & Human Rights Summer School VIII Edition – BHR Summer School
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Course description
This year’s BHR Summer School will be part of AENEAS – European Due Diligence Law in Global Value Chains, a Sant’Anna School’s Jean Monnet Module funded by the European Union. Now in its VIII edition, the BHR Summer School is an advanced and intensive educational training program targeted at students, academics, and professionals (e.g. legal practitioners, consultants, NGOs’ personnel) aiming to further their knowledge of the most significant developments in the field of Business & Human Rights. Therefore, the BHR Summer School will offer advanced and highly specialised knowledge of the most important advancements in the field of Human Rights and Sustainability vis-à-vis business operations—especially of the multinational corporate kind in the context of Global Value Chains. To this end, consistently with the AENEAS project goals, the programme of the BHR Summer School will pay specific attention, through ad hoc learning modules, to the emerging legal framework of EU Due Diligence Law. Every year professionals, including scholars, lawyers, and activists from all over the world come to the summer school to foster ways of thinking forward in the field of business and human rights.
Co-directors:
- Angelica Bonfanti (University of Milan)
- Marta Bordignon (Human Rights International Corner)
- Marco Fasciglione (National Research Council of Italy)
- Chiara Macchi (Wageningen University and Research)
- Giuseppe Di Vetta (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Course target
The BHR School is geared to students, academics, and professionals (e.g. legal practitioners, consultants, NGOs’ personnel).
Training objectives
- Offering a comprehensive, in-depth, and critical framing of the most significant developments in the field of Business & Human Rights, through the lens of both International Law and domestic legal systems.
- Offering advanced and specific knowledge of the evolution of EU Due Diligence Law, especially in view of the entering into force of the CSRD and CSDDD.
- Furthering knowledge of Global Value Chains as emerging contexts in which Human Rights violations can happen, even at a systemic level, and a concerning state of impunity persists, especially when it comes to corporate actors. - Developing the attendee’s ability of navigating the complex scenarios in which Business & Human Rights topics develop, in view of the various dimensions at play (legislative; judicial; international organisations; activities of other actors, both institutional and not).
- Developing the attendee’s ability to face, critically and operatively, developments in the field of Business & Human Rights.
- Developing the attendee’s ability to identify the innovative elements of the Business & Human Rights field, especially in the EU and international context.
- Developing the attendee’s ability to think across the many sectors affected by transformations of the Business & Human Rights field.
Teaching methods
The BHR Summer School aims to bring together theoretical, operational, and experience-based knowledge, by adopting a flexible and pluralistic teaching method. The programme will span over four days and a half, balancing ex cathedra lectures—nonetheless involving direct participation of the attendees–and sessions dedicated to practice-by-doing, experience sharing, and group discussions.
Structure and Contents
The Summer School’s sessions are spread over four-and-a-half days. Each day is composed of 6 hours of lessons with a lunch break of 1 hour. The Summer School is divided into sessions that focus on a variety of topics, such as:
- the UNPGs + 10 and the CSDDD in Transnational context
- Theory and Practice of Human Rights Due Diligence
- Sustainability and Human Rights
- The implementation of EU due diligence law at national level
- Access to Justice and Remedy for HR Abuses
- Business, armed conflict and democracy
The course programme will be published in the coming days.
Course fee
- € 930 Regular (on-site);
- € 830 Regular – Early bird (on-site, registered up to April 23rd 2025);
- € 820 Students (on-site, only for undergraduate and postgraduate students);
- € 700 Students – Early bird (on-site, only for undergraduate and postgraduate students, registered up to April 23rd 2025);
- € 650 On-line (discounts for Early bird and Student status do not apply).
Application deadline
May 31st 2025 (early bird April 23 2025).
Attendance certificate
The Summer School will award a Certificate of Attendance.
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