Business and Human Rights workshop; Professor Claire Bright: "The State of Play for Human Rights Due Diligence: Navigating the Omnibus Proposal Through the Lens of Mandatory HRDD Implementation Lessons"

 

Human rights due diligence is very much in a state of play; but then it has been since 2011, and then more intensely after the start of the international project of human rights due diligence legalization in 2014, and thereafter with the European Green Deal. And now retrenchment and the possibility that the Business and Human Rights Treaty will join the Norms and the Code of Corporate Conduct in the dustbin of efforts that were never realized but whose ideas remain for future generations to consider when political and social circumstances change (again). 

Professor Claire Bright has been in the thick of the battles over mandatory human rights due diligence measures and so it is with great delight that I pass along information about an upcoming event that might be of interest to those who work in this field. Professor Bright will be speaking to "The State of Play for Human Rights Due Diligence: Navigating the Omnibus Proposal Through the Lens of Mandatory HRDD Implementation Lessons" Wednesday, October 1 | 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET (Virtual by Zoom) as part of the University of Connecticut's Business & Human Rights workshop. Professor Bright will share key insights from the law and practice of human rights and environmental due diligence to better understand and shape the EU’s upcoming reforms.

This event is hosted by the Business & Human Rights Initiative (BHRI), a joint program of the Gladstein Human Rights Institute and UConn School of Business, in collaboration with the Research Program on Economic & Social Rights (ESRG).

More information follows below.

 

 

The State of Play for Human Rights Due Diligence: Navigating the Omnibus Proposal Through the Lens of Mandatory HRDD Implementation Lessons Wednesday, October 1 | 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Virtual by Zoom   In this Business & Human Rights workshop, Prof. Claire Bright will share key insights from the law and practice of human rights and environmental due diligence to better understand and shape the EU’s upcoming reforms. This event is hosted by the Business & Human Rights Initiative (BHRI), a joint program of the Gladstein Human Rights Institute and UConn School of Business, in collaboration with the Research Program on Economic & Social Rights (ESRG). About this Event This session explores the lessons learned from implementing existing Human Rights (and Environmental) Due Diligence laws and how they inform the proposed reforms to these laws in the European Union (called the Omnibus proposal). It will dive into what has worked well and the challenges companies have faced in implementing these laws. It will draw out key lessons learned from these real-world experiences and consider how they can inform and improve the ongoing Omnibus proposal. This virtual event is free and open to the public. For the link and a reminder to join us, click the button below to register on Zoom. About the Speaker Claire Bright is Associate Professor in Private Law as well as the Founder and Director of the NOVA Centre on Business, Human Rights and the Environment at NOVA Law School in Lisbon. She specializes in Sustainable Corporate Governance, Private International Law, International Commercial Law, Comparative Private Law and Business and Human Rights. She holds a PhD in International Law from the European University Institute in Florence, an LL.M in Private International Law and International Commercial Law from La Sorbonne Law School and a Double Bachelor’s degree in French and English Laws from UPEC. Before joining the faculty at NOVA School of Law, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford, an Associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and as a Lecturer at the London School of Business and Management. She was also a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute of Florence. She regularly organizes courses, events and trainings in the fields of Business and Human Rights, ESG, Human Rights Due Diligence as well as Environmental and Climate Change Due Diligence. About the Discussant David Hess is the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Business Law at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is also a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Professor Hess is the Law, Public Policy, and Business Ethics Section Editor for the Journal of Business Ethics, and he serves on the editorial boards of the American Business Law Journal, Business Ethics Quarterly, and the Business and Human Rights Journal. Professor Hess is currently co-President of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association, and he served as the Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Standards on corporate monitors. He is the author of the 2024 book Advanced Introduction to Corporate Compliance. Register & Join by Zoom

To request disability accommodations for this event please contact Alex Branzell.

 

 

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