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UCL Ethics & Law - Shareholder Engagement in the Embedded Business Corporation: Investment Activism, Human Rights and TWAIL Discourse

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 5:00 PM (GMT)

London, United Kingdom

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Shareholder Engagement in the Embedded Business Corporation: Investment Activism, Human Rights and TWAIL Discourse

 

 

 

Professor Aaron Dhir

Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University 


Tuesday 14th February 2012 17:00
followed by an informal drinks reception


Venue: 

Moot Court, UCL Laws

Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens

London WC1E 6AU

 

 

About the Lecture: The expansion of transnational corporations’ overseas business operations has led to serious concerns regarding human rights-related impacts.  As these apprehensions grow, we see a countervailing rise in calls for government intervention and in
levels of rights-conscious shareholder advocacy by socially responsible investment organizations.  I focus on the latter as manifested in recent use of the shareholder proposal mechanism found in corporate law.  Shareholder proposals, while under-theorized, provide a valuable lens through which to consider the Polanyian notion that economic behaviour is embedded within social relations.  In doing so, I situate my analysis within Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) scholarship.   
 

About the Speaker: Aaron Dhir is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University.  He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government and the University of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.  He currently holds the appointment of Scholar in Residence with the Law Commission of Ontario.    

The UCL Centre for Ethics & Law was established in 2009 to reflect the growing need for enhanced collaboration between academics, practicing lawyers and industry, given the fast changing and increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the global issues lying at the intersection between ethics and regulatory compliance. The work of the Centre is resolutely multi-disciplinary and practice-oriented, focusing on a number of current themes including the professional ethics of in-house and external legal counsel, ethics of risk, anti-corruption, global business and human rights, and distributive justice.

with thanks to our donors Norton Rose, Ernst & Young, Shell, BAE,
AstraZeneca, HSBC and Carillion

 

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UCL Faculty of Laws
Bentham House
Endsleigh Gardens
WC1H 0EG London
United Kingdom

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 5:00 PM (GMT)


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