Rethinking How to do Business: Why Should Companies Hire People with Human Rights Competencies?

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On May 28, 11 am ET/5 pm CET Professor Joanne Bauer, who teaches Corporations and Human Rights at SIPA, will join Bjorn Fasterling, Professor of Law and LegalEDHEC Researcher at EDHEC Business School, in a webinar on the subject of "Rethinking how to do business - Why should companies hire people with human rights competencies?" The seminar should be of interest to students who plan to do human rights work within the corporate sector. This webinar, will be part of a LegalEDHEC webinar series dedicated to law transformations at digital age.


The event is cosponsored by EDHEC, the SIPA HRHP concentration, and the Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum. Please register at the link below to join.

Joanne Bauer teaches Corporations and Human Rights at the School of International Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University (SIPA). She is Senior Researcher for the Business and Human Rights Program at Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights and Co-Founder of the Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum. In October 2018 she co-founded Rights CoLab, a non-profit that develops strategies to advance human rights that bridge the fields of business, technology, finance, and civil society. From 2015 - 2019, she developed and taught a year-long Business and Human Rights Clinic at SIPA.


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