The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:32:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Review Links Corporate and Securities Law and Human Rights – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Review Links Corporate and Securities Law and Human Rights https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2010/07/27/review-links-corporate-and-securities-law-and-human-rights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-links-corporate-and-securities-law-and-human-rights https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2010/07/27/review-links-corporate-and-securities-law-and-human-rights/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:21:07 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=11369?d=20100727092107EDT Editor’s Note: John Ruggie is the Berthold Beitz Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, and an Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is currently serving as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights. This post relates to a recent trends paper prepared by Professor Ruggie, which is available here.

I am pleased to share with you the results of a research project that examined whether and how corporate and securities law in more than 40 jurisdictions around the world currently fosters corporate respect for human rights. This project was prepared as part of my mandate as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights.

To my knowledge, this is the first in-depth, comparative study of the links between human rights and corporate and securities law. More than 20 leading corporate law firms from around the world participated in the research on a pro bono basis, with Weil, Gotshal and Manges contributing from the US side.

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