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Spring 2015

IV. COMPLIANCE PRACTICE

CLASS TWELVE: CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY and the Role of lawyers; "Ruggie Principles" on Business and Human Rights; developing compliance plans.

Guest: Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Director of Disputes and Investigations, Navigant Consulting, Inc.

ASSIGNMENT

• Global Reporting Initiative. G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (2013)

• De Shutter, Olivier, et.al. Human Rights Due Diligence: The Role of States. Accountability Roundtable (2012).

• Reider-Gordon, Mikhail.  Understanding Foreign States' Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting 39, pp. 61-63 (2013)

• Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights. Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Comparison Chart: VPI, ICoC and EITI (2013)

• Respecting Human Rights Through Global Supply Chains,  Shift Business Learning Program & Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2012)

• European Commission, Communication From the Commission to the European Parliament, The Council, The European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: A Renewed EU strategy 2011-14 for Corporate Social Responsibility.  Brussels, 25.10.2011

• Blitt, Robert C.  Beyond Ruggie’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Charting an Embracive Approach to Corporate Human Rights Compliance.  Texas International Law Journal 48 (2013)

• United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (2011)