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Transnational Extractive Companies and Human Rights: The Crucial Role of Home State Regulation

Transnational Extractive Companies and Human Rights: The Crucial Role of Home State Regulation

Penelope Simons, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, will visit the Law School to discuss “Transnational Extractive Companies and Human Rights: The Crucial Role of Home State Regulation.”

Professor Simons has been engaged in research on corporate human rights accountability for over a decade. In December 1999 she participated in the Canadian Assessment Mission to Sudan (the Harker Mission), appointed by Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, to investigate allegations of slavery as well as links between oil development in Sudan and violations of human rights. Her current research is focused on the human rights implications of domestic and extraterritorial corporate activity, state responsibility for corporate complicity in human rights violations, as well as the intersections between transnational corporate activity, human rights and international economic law.

She is the co-author, with Audrey Macklin, of The Governance Gap: Extractive Industries, Human Rights, and the Home State Advantage (Routledge, 2014) which examines the human rights implications of corporate activity in zones of weak governance and argues for home state regulation. She is also a co-author with J. Anthony VanDuzer and Graham Mayada of Integrating Sustainable Development into International Investment Agreements: A Guide for Developing Country Negotiators (Commonwealth Secretariat, 2013), a book that discusses ways in which international investment treaties could be reimagined to address more effectively the sustainable development concerns of states that are parties to such agreements.

Date/Time: 
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 12:45pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Room 114, Lewis Katz Hall, Carlisle, PA and Auditorium, Lewis Katz Building, University Park, PA

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