I am pleased to announce that registration for WVU’s 2013 Business and Human Rights Conference is now open!
To register, please visit our website. The link is here. That’s also where we’ll post information as it develops, including a draft agenda , list of confirmed speakers and any other information that comes up.
Also below, as promised, is a current list of confirmed speakers/moderators. As you can see, we have participants coming from around the world and representing a wide array of stakeholders. We are also hoping to bring in representatives from the US Department of State (and other administrative agencies) as well as members of business (both small and medium businesses as well as large corporations).
Michael Addo, University of Exeter, Member of the U.N.’s Working Group on Business and Human Rights
Roger Branigan, The Global Community of Practice for Business and Human Rights
Karen Bravo, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
George Brenkert, Georgetown Business School
Jernej Cernic, Graduate School of Government and European Studies
Angela Cornell, Cornell Law School
Jonathan Drimmer, Georgetown Law
Jim Friedberg, West Virginia University College of Law
Andrew Friedman, Think Africa Press
Patricia Illingworth, Northeastern Law
Sarah Labowitz, NYU Business School
Lisa Laplante, University of Connecticut School of Law
Ben Love, Fresh Fields Bruckhaus Deringer, LLP
Marcia Narine, St. Thomas University School of Law
Genny Ngende, Vrije Univerisiteit Brussels
Justine Nolan, University of New South Wales
Nwamaka Okany, Amsterdam Center for International law
Alexandra Popov, Couns. Fmr. Liberian Pres.
Ashton Phillips, George Washington Law
Anita Ramasastry, School of Law – University of Washington
Astrid Sanders, Birmingham Law School
Faith Stevelman, New York Law
Atabong Tamo, Universiteit Antwerpen
JoseVargas-Hernandez, Universidad de la Guadalajara
Going forward, make sure to check the website for the most up to date information.
