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Business & Human Rights Summer School, VIII edition

27 Jan 2025
Launched the call for applications of the 2025 edition of the Business and Human Rights Summer School. Now in its VIII edition, the BHR Summer School will be held in Pisa at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies from 23rd June to 27th June, as part of the scientific cooperation with the project AENEAS – European Due Diligence Law in Global Value Chains, Jean Monnet Module funded by the European Union.

The BHR Summer School is an advanced and intensive educational training program targeted at students, academics, and professionals (e.g. legal practitioners, consultants, NGOs’ personnel) aiming to further their knowledge of the most significant developments in the field of Business & Human Rights while keeping up with current relevant developments at national, regional and international level. To this aim it follows a smart-mix approach, composed of theoretical and practical classes as well as forums given by lecturers with different backgrounds, including academics, NGOs, lawyers, corporations, consultants, public institutions’ officers. The School is the outcome of the scientific partnership between Cnr Iriss, the University of Milan, the Wagenigen Universtity and Research, and Human Rights International Corner NGO.

Structure and Contents 

The Summer School’s sessions are spread over four-and-a-half days. Each day is composed of 6 hours of lessons with a lunch break of 1 hour. The Summer School is divided into sessions that focus on a variety of topics, such as:

  • the UNPGs + 10 and the CSDDD in Transnational context
  • Theory and Practice of Human Rights Due Diligence
  • Sustainability and Human Rights
  • The implementation of EU due diligence law at national level
  • Access to Justice and Remedy for HR Abuses
  • Business, armed conflict and democracy

The course programme will be published soon.

Applications must be submitted by May 31st 2025 (early bird April 23 2025).

The Scientific Committee of the BHR Summer School is composed of Angelica Bonfanti (University of Milan), Marta Bordignon (Human Rights International Corner), Marco Fasciglione (National Research Council of Italy), Chiara Macchi (Wageningen University) and Giuseppe Di Vetta (Sant’Anna School).

For more information

Marco Fasciglione, PI of the project CO.RE. Corporate Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence and the Promotion of the Corporate Responsibility, marco.fasciglione@cnr.it

Per informazioni:
Marco Fasciglione
CNR – Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo
marco.fasciglione@cnr.it

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