Legal Studies Seminar Series featuring Stephen Park, Associate Professor & Satell Fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Law
Corporate Social Responsibility
April 16, 2020
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
MBA Commons, 7th Floor
Food and refreshments will be served for registrants
A growing array of human rights advocates seeks to influence business conduct through direct cooperative engagement with corporations in the form of public-private partnerships, multi-stakeholder initiatives, and other transnational governance regimes. Notwithstanding the ideological differences between these actors and the institutional differences between their targets, both involve efforts to propagate norms of acceptable social conduct and transform them into legal rules. the shift from norms-based to rules-based corporate social accountability is a predicate to a second shift—from legal rules to governance regimes. This governance shift is driven by the professional identity of corporate social accountability advocates and their ability to convince corporate decision-makers of the value of human rights.
Biography
Stephen Park is an Associate Professor of Business Law and the Satell Fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility at the University of Connecticut School of Business. His research is in the areas of international financial regulation, international trade law, corporate social responsibility and accountability, and corporate compliance. His current work primarily focuses on sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and human rights in the global financial markets, including in the context of sovereign debt, sustainable finance and ESG investing, and corporate environmental and social reporting.
Education/Professional Certification
Sponsored by The Department of Legal Studies, Fox School of Business