The first edition of the International Summer School on Business and Human Rights will be held at Sant’Anna University’s campus in Pisa, from 18^th to 22^nd June 2018.

The school aims to provide an understanding of the main challenges concerning business and human rights, with particular attention to some crucial issues of the contemporary debate in this field area.

The Course will provide to the almost 30 enrolled scholars coming from all over the world an understanding of the main challenges concerning the contemporary debate on business and human rights.

Marco Fasciglione, researcher of CNR IRISS, is Co-director of the Summer School.

The Summer School will provide participant scholars (students, researchers, NGO workers, lawyers, CSR experts and other public and private sector’s practitioners) with comprehensive knowledge of the legal mechanisms and tools applicable in the field of business and human rights while keeping up with current relevant developments at national, regional and international level.

A specific focus will be afforded to the content and impact of the 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, their implementation at national and international level, as well as to the debates concerning the process of negotiation  of a Treaty on Business and Human Rights.

Lectures, featuring some of the most important scholars of this area, will be organized around three modules:

• the State duty to protect human rights;
• the corporate responsibility to respect human rights;
• the victims’ access to remedy.

The Summer, the first in Italy concerning this subject-matter, is the result of the scientific collaboration of IRISS-CNR with the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, the University of Milan, and the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Human Rights (CIDU).

Marco Fasciglione will hold two lectures: the first one on The first Pillar of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: the State Duty to Protect and the second one on Unpacking effective remedy under the Guiding Principles

For further information please contact  Marco Fasciglione, Principal Investigator of the project “CO.RE. Corporate Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence and the promotion of Corporate Responsibility:

m.fasciglione@iriss.cnr.it; +39 081 2470991

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