ADR and Human Rights: A Match?
This article appears in the April 2009 edition of the Mediation Newsletter of the International Bar Association. An entire day of the 2008 IBA Conference in Buenos Aires was devoted to the topic of the...
View ArticleADR and Human Rights: The Saga Continues
Readers of this blog will remember my interest in the work of Prof. John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations....
View ArticleCorporate Investment in a Community: CSR That Works
This post comes from the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, where a team from the Corporate Social Responsibility Project of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has worked on a film documenting...
View ArticleFilm Posted on Community/Corporate Conflicts
The film concerning the use of mediation to resolve generations-old disputes between communities and corporations in Luzon, Philippines, has been completed and released. It is available for free...
View ArticleMediation Films Win CEDR Award
The four films produced by Harvard’s Kennedy School on mediating corporate-community disputes have been recognized with the Award for Best Publication or Communication by the prestigious Centre for...
View Article“Protect, Respect, Remedy”: What is the Lawyer’s Social Responsibility?
The current issue of IBA Global Insight (Feb/March 2013) features an excellent article by Rebecca Lowe that, on first glance, studies the defenses to liability under the Alien Tort Claims Act as...
View ArticleRutgers Law Students Get It
My friend and colleague Jonathan Hyman asked me to visit his ADR Survey class at Rutgers Law School a few weeks ago. Teams within the class had been assigned special topics to study and then present...
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