Workshop - Comparing National Supply Chain Laws for Human Rights: From the UN Guiding Principles to Corporate Practices

Event Details

This workshop will focus on developing academic contributions for our proposed book 'Comparing national supply chain laws for human rights: From the UN Guiding Principles to corporate practices'. We will hold four panel discussions with experts in the field relating to different legal models and how to analyse these models comparatively and from different perspectives.

This workshop is part of our project, Human rights in global supply chains: Measuring the effectiveness of home state regulatory models on corporate behaviour. The following day (13th December), we will host roundtable discussions on developing a framework to measure the effectiveness of these models.

Provisional Programme

10:00 - 10:30 - Registration

10:30 - 10:45 - Welcome and introductions

10:45 - 12:00 - European mandatory human rights due diligence laws - France, Germany and Norway

• Dr Irene Pietropaoli, BIICL (Chair)
• Dr Claire Bright, NOVA
• Professor Andreas Rühmkorf, Westfälische Hochschule and Alina Ganser, Westfälische Hochschule
• Victoria Skeie, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights

  
12:00 - 12:15 - Coffee & tea

12:15 - 13:30 - Proposed and upcoming human rights due diligence laws - the EU, the Netherlands, the UK

• Professor Andreas Rühmkorf, Westfälische Hochschule and Alina Ganser, Westfälische Hochschule (Co-Chairs)
• Dr Sofia Gonzalez de Aguinaga, BIICL and Jasmine Elliott, BIICL
• Dr Lucas Roorda, Utrecht University, and Debadatta Bose, UC Berkeley
• Dr Irene Pietropaoli, BIICL

  
13:30 - 14:30 - Lunch

14:30 - 15:45 - Issue Specific Legal Models and Comparison of Enforcement Mechanisms

• Jasmine Elliott, BIICL (Chair)
• Remo Messerli, University of Zurich and Serge Biggoer, University of Zurich
• Dr Sofia Gonzalez de Aguinaga, BIICL and Monica Dey, Harvard
• Dr Ekaterina Aristova, University of Oxford and Lisa Hsin, Kirkland & Ellis

15:45 - 16:00 - Coffee & tea

16:00 - 17:15 - Legal models from different perspectives - Finance, Social Science, and the Global South

• Dr Sofia Gonzalez de Aguinaga, BIICL (Chair)
• Shavana Haythornthwaite, Morningstar
• Dr Max Joosten, University of Amsterdam and Dr Luc Fransen, University of Amsterdam
• Dr Natalie Langford, University of Sheffield

  
17:15- 17:30 - Concluding remarks

Pricing and Registration

The workshop will take place at the BIICL office in London. Online participation can be arranged only if necessary.
Attendance is by invitation-only. If you wish to attend, please contact Jasmine Elliott.