Enforcing Corporate Social Responsability
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HEC LAW CLUB LAUNCH
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HEC Alumni Club LAW & BUSINESS
organise a conference :
Wednesday 22 november - 7:00pm
HEC Alumni - 9 avenue Franklin Roosevelt Paris 8e - Grand Salon
"ENFORCING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY"
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by Prof. Erika George (University of Utah)
on Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility by Reporting and Rankings
The HEC Law & Tax Department invites you to the launch of the HEC Law Club on 22 November 2017 at 7:00pm at the HEC House of Alumni in Paris.
The Club provides a one-stop-shop opportunity for law firms, in-house departments, academics and other business stakeholders in the HEC community to meet, network and exchange. Led by the Department, the Club also offers access to HEC faculty’s research insights as well as to HEC students. The event includes a series of SPARK talks by HEC law faculty and a talk by Professor Erika George, Co-Director of the Center of Global Justice of the University of Utah, on Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility by Reporting and Rankings.
The talk examines the emergence and evolution of selected ranking and reporting frameworks in the expanding realm of business and human rights advocacy.
Specifically, it examines how indicators in the form of rankings and reports evaluating the conduct of transnational corporate actors can serve as regulatory tools with potential to bridge a global governance gap that has places human rights at risk. It explains the conditions that have led to coordination and collaboration among those entities engaged in creating reporting frameworks and rankings while nevertheless relying upon the competitive impulses of the business enterprises being ranked to assert influence. It also identifies why the businesses being ranked have been slow to deploy effective counter-strategies despite efforts to contest emerging reporting requirements.
It considers the interaction of selected business and human rights indicators with recent laws regulating supply chain transparency in the United States and with recent global policy initiatives calling for business enterprises to conduct human rights impact assessments. It reviews some of the methodological and moral risks raised with respect in ranking rights. In conclusion, it is argued that in the ecology of global governance these new business and human rights indicators will provide rights advocates with greater power and have the potential to play an important role in solidifying emerging soft law standards and strengthening corporate self-regulation.
The strategic use of indicators in the business and human rights realm could ultimately prove to make the commitments contained in voluntary codes of conduct to respect human rights obligatory.
- Introduction by Prof. Alberto Alemanno and SPARK Talks by HEC Law Professors
- Keynote by Prof. Erika George (University of Utah) on Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility by Reporting and Rankings
- Cocktail
Philippe Brunswick (H.76), Président
