My friend and colleague Jonathan Hyman asked me to visit his ADR Survey class at Rutgers Law School a few weeks ago. Teams within the class had been assigned special topics to study and then present to the larger group, and one team was concentrating on the Corporate/Community Dialogue films...
Tag Archives: Corporate Social Responsibility
The current issue of IBA Global Insight (Feb/March 2013) features an excellent article by Rebecca Lowe that, on first glance, studies the defenses to liability under the Alien Tort Claims Act as presented by the U.S. Supreme Court's consideration of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. The article, however, is both...
The four films produced by Harvard's Kennedy School on mediating corporate-community disputes have been recognized with the Award for Best Publication or Communication by the prestigious Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), in London. I am honored to have written and co-directed these films, and also served as interviewer on two....
The film concerning the use of mediation to resolve generations-old disputes between communities and corporations in Luzon, Philippines, has been completed and released. It is available for free viewing at...
This post comes from the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, where a team from the Corporate Social Responsibility Project of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government has worked on a film documenting the tensions between operators of two hydroelectric dams and the communities that were inundated, destroyed and displaced during the...
Readers of this blog will remember my interest in the work of Prof. John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations. His work continues, richer and even more provocative....
This article appears in the April 2009 edition of the Mediation Newsletter of the International Bar Association. An entire day of the 2008 IBA Conference in Buenos Aires was devoted to the topic of the interrelationship among Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights. Organized by James E. Brumm, A....