Business Conflict Blog

I had a good chuckle at an article that appears in the current issue of Dispute Resolution International, the journal of the Dispute Resolution Section of the International Bar Association.  Daniele Cutolo and Mark Alexander Shalaby discuss a case brought in Italy to test whether an Italian statute requiring mediation prior to certain consumer court proceedings violates Article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, ensuring access to the courts.  The lower court found that it did.

Ya gotta smile.

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Tags: Human Rights, Mediation, Public Policy

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. Read more »

Tags: conflict management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, systems design

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. Jan Eijsbouts and John F. Sherman, III, one focus of the discussion was the Report of John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, titled “Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for Business and Human Rights” (the “Ruggie Report”).

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Tags: Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Mediation