HHRJ’s 2014 Symposium, The Future of Business and Human Rights, was held on April 17, 2014. It kicked off with a lunch panel on the Alien Tort Statute involving a timely discussion of litigation strategies for holding corporations accountable for human rights abuses one year after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kiobel v. Royal […]
HHRJ Symposium 2014: The Future of Business and Human Rights
Spring 2014 Symposium Can businesses protect human rights while protecting their bottom line? What enforcement mechanisms can make this vision a reality? Join advocates, attorneys, scholars, and policymakers in an exciting discussion on the way forward in this topical area of concern. The Harvard Human Rights Journal presents its 2014 Symposium: The Future of Business […]
Making Human Rights Sexy: Authenticity in Glamorous Times
Payam Akhavan[1] (Harvard LLM ’90 SJD ’01) is Professor of International Law at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He was previously Senior Fellow at Yale Law School and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. Professor Akhavan was the first Legal […]
In Search Of Kony: Activism And The North/South Divide
Muna Ndulo is a Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School, and Director of Cornell University’s Institute for African Development. Muna Ndulo is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of constitution making, governance and institution building, human rights and Foreign Direct Investments. Tinenenji Banda is a Lecturer of Law, University of Zambia. (a) Introduction […]
For Epistemological and Prudent Internationalism
For Epistemological and Prudent Internationalism[1] B.S. Chimni is Professor and Chairperson, Centre for International Legal Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been a Visiting Professor at Brown and Tokyo Universities. He has also held visiting positions at Harvard, Cambridge, and York Universities. He is a Vice-President of the Asian Society of International Law. […]
Reflections on Kony 2012
Rosa Brooks is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches courses on international law, national security, constitutional law, and other subjects. She also writes a weekly column for Foreign Policy, and serves as a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. Brooks returned in July 2011 from a two year […]