We have the pleasure of welcoming Aleydis Nissen who will present her soon to be published book (by Cambridge University Press) on a most pressing issue:
The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human RightsEmerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities on a global scale through the rapid pace of technological change and globalisation. But such corporations have to date been largely overlooked in the field of business and human rights. Treatment of such corporations has typically been in the context of supply chain studies, as subsidiaries of corporations from economically developed Western states.
This book takes a radically different approach. It aims to investigate the conditions under which the European Union and its Member States regulate and remedy human rights violations by corporations from emerging and developing states. Stemming from the hypothesis that the EU intends to play a central role, Aleydis Nissen explores how the EU and its Member States attempt to ensure that EU-based businesses are not undercut by emerging competition, drawing on global examples to illustrate this developing phenomenon. Nissen discusses, amongst others the (extraterritorial) regulations that lie at the basis of the forthcoming EU-wide sustainable corporate governance initiative and transnational regulatory governance. For more information, see www.emergingbhr.eu.

The book presentation will be followed by reflections by Joao de Freitas, one of Brussels School of Governance academics working on related topics in the framework of the ERC Curiae Virides project of Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez.

Following the author’s response to these reflections, the audience will be invited to take part in a Q&A session.