Corporate Human Rights Responsibility: Its Growing Relevance and Enforceability


October 24 & 25, 2007
Northwestern University School of Law

The aim of this two-day conference is to identify some of the major legal and policy measures that should be adopted to effectively address human rights abuses for which multinational corporations (MNC), under appropriate legal standards, are beginning to assume responsibility. We will examine the issues from four perspectives: corporate, governmental, civil society, and academic.

Conference Schedule

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Keynote Address

Chip Pitts
President, Bill of Rights Defense Committee; Lecturer, Stanford Law School; Former Board Chair, Amnesty International USA; Former Chief Legal Officer, Nokia Inc.

Luncheon Address

Honorable Diane P. Wood
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

Presented by:

Journal of International Human Rights
Center for International Human Rights
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Law

In partnership with:

American Society of International Law
Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame Law School
Human Rights Institute, Columbia University Law School

With the support of:

Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Mayer Brown LLP