Human Rights is the New Business Risk - New Challenges in Dispute Resolution

New Zealand Law Foundation International Dispute Resolution Fellow 2017

Professor Robert Volterra (Partner, VolterraFietta, London) is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading public international law practitioners. He advises and represents governments, international organisations and private clients on a wide range of public international law issues, including international boundaries, sovereign and diplomatic immunities, the Law of the Sea, transboundary resources and bilateral investment treaties. Robert has advised and represented states across six continents, and was part of New Zealand’s external legal team in the 1996 reprise of the Nuclear Tests Case against France. He also teaches international foreign investment law and international boundary disputes at University College London and Kings’ College London.

with Dr Andrew Erueti (University of Auckland); Associate Professor Catherine Iorns (Victoria University of Wellington); Paolo Marzolini, (Partner, Patocchi & Marzolini, Geneva); and Chief Human Rights Commissioner David Rutherford.

Globalisation has sharpened debate on the responsibility of corporations for their human rights footprint. During the past decade, the UN has unanimously endorsed a framework and guiding principles for business and human rights, with the goal of preventing human rights abuses that stem from business activity. However, a major question remains: how to hold corporations liable effectively when they violate human rights.

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