Rosa Maria Ballardini
is Professor of ip law and Vice Dean (research) at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Law. Rosa’s research interests focus on the interface between law (with focus on ip law), technology and sustainability. She has led several multidisciplinary research projects and written extensively especially in the fields of patent and copyright law, open innovation and open source, as well as ip strategies and management in various technological contexts (e.g. software, 3D printing, Artificial Intelligence, industrial internet and polymer-related technologies). Her research approach is multidisciplinary, combining law, technology, business and policy via using different types of methodologies (e.g. traditional legal research methods, empirical methods and design thinking in legal studies).
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
Ph.D. in Law, University of Queensland, Australia, is Professor at the Department of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh. He was a Humboldt research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (mpil). His primary research areas are public international law, and law and religion. He is co-editor of Human Rights and International Criminal Law (Brill, 2022), Revisiting the Geneva Conventions: 1949– 2019 (Brill, 2020), and Law and Religion in the Liberal State (Hart Publishing, 2020).
Jernej Letnar Černič
is Full Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at the Faculty of National and European Studies at the New University, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has. recently published two scientific monographs: “Slovenia at the Crossroads: The Genesis of Human Rights Protection in the Slovenian Society”, (Kranj: New University, Faculty of National and European Studies, 2018) and “Corporate Accountability under Socio-economic Rights”, (Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2019). His work has been cited in reports by the United Nations, the European Parliament and the Council of Europe, in decisions of the Slovenian Constitutional Court and in academic studies all over the world.
Isabel Ebert
is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Business Ethics, University of St. Gallen, and serves as a Strategic Adviser to the United Nations Office of the
Paolo Galizzi
is Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Sustainable Development Legal Initiative (sdli) and the Corporate and Social Responsibility Program at the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. After graduating in 1993 summa cum laude at the University of Milan, he obtained llm in Public International Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and doctoral degree from the University of Milan. Prof. Galizzi has edited volumes on customary law in Africa and international environmental law; he contributed to chapters in academic volumes and has written numerous articles.
Dino Girardi
is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Law, where he carries out research in the field of Legal Informatics. Currently, his primarily interest is on Open Data and the digitisation of cultural heritage, particularly in relation with issues concerning Indigenous people and minorities. The focus of his research covers legal, ethical and technological issues.
David Hess
is Professor of Law and Ethics at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He has a Ph.D. in Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a jd from the University of Iowa College of Law. Professor Hess is currently the Business Law, Public Policy and Business Ethics section editor for the Journal of Business Ethics. He served as the Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Standards on corporate monitors. He is currently co-President of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association.
M Rafiqul Islam
is Emeritus Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Australia. He obtained Ph.D. and llm from Monash University Australia; llb, ba (Honours, Economics), and ma (Economics) from Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. His extensive publications include monographs, edited books, book chapters, and refereed journal articles. National Trials of International Crimes in Bangladesh: Transitional Justice as Reflected in Judgments (Brill, Leyden/Boston, 2019) is his recent book. He was awarded the Macquarie University “Outstanding Teacher Award” in 2000, Macquarie University Best Research
Victoria Kongats
ba, jd, llm. is a graduate of Dalhousie University (Schulich School of Law) with a research focus in public interest law. Her llm thesis (2022) explored the way that the Canadian Constitution could be used as a tool to increase safety standards for consumer products, specifically medical devices. She has also been a Research Assistant with the Marine & Environmental Law Institute (Schulich School of Law). While at the Institute she assisted in the development of training materials on a human rights based-approach to the regulation of plastics for a project funded by the United Nations Environment Programme.
Lisa J Laplante
is Professor of Law at New England Law| Boston where she also directs the Center for International Law and Policy (cilp). As a human rights practitioner and scholar, her work appears in top publications, including Law and Social Inquiry, Harvard International Law Journal, and Michigan Journal of International Law. In recognition of this work, she became a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton in 2008 and is frequently invited to present at international forums as well as participate in UN expert meetings. She is a certified mediator through the Harvard Mediation Program. In 2016, she founded the Operational-level Grievance Mechanisms Research Project.
Jindan-Karena Mann
is a Ph.D. researcher and part of the Rethinking slic project on secondary liability for international crimes. Her research centers on how tort law applies to human rights harms arising out of business conduct. In particular, her research examines how transnational corporations may be liable when they contribute to or facilitate grave human rights violations committed by their business partners and subsidiaries in a common supply chain.
Olga Martin-Ortega
is Professor of International Law at the School of Law, University of Greenwich, where she leads the Business, Human Rights and the Environment Research Group (bhre). She is currently Senior Advisor on Remedy in Global Supply Chains for Electronics Watch, member of the Board of Trustees of the Corporate Justice Coalition, UK and member of the Board of Directors of the London Universities Purchasing Consortium. She was a member of the
Peter Muchlinski
is Emeritus Professor of International Commercial Law at the School of Law, Gender and Media, the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Multinational Enterprises and the Law (Oxford University Press, 3rd ed, 2021) and Advanced Introduction to Business and Human Rights (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2022). He specialises in the regulation of multinational enterprises, international investment law and business and human rights. He has worked as a legal consultant for unctad and is a door tenant at Brick Court Chambers, London. He was until recently a member of the Editorial Board of the Business and Human Rights Journal.
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
worked as legal counsel in German Ministry of Economic Affairs, gatt and the wto, and taught international and European law at the Universities of St. Gallen, Fribourg, Geneva, and the European University Institute at Florence, where he served as head of the Law Department. He taught at the Hague and Xiamen Academies of International Law, the eui Academy of European Law, and at numerous Universities in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the US, Latin-America, South-Africa, China, India and Singapore. His publications include more than 35 books and 380 contributions to books and academic journals.
Nelson Camilo Sanchez
is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where directs the International Human Rights Law Clinic and co-directs the Center for Comparative and International Law. Professor Sanchez holds an llb and Ph.D. in Law from the National University of Colombia and an llm from Harvard Law School. His research and scholarly work revolve around the complexities of transitional justice processes, exploring the ways in which societies reckon with human rights violations and navigate the path towards reconciliation and accountability.
is Associate Professor and the Yogis & Keddy Chair in Human Rights Law at the Schulich School of Law and Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University, Canada. Recent publications include as co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development (2021), and co-editor of the Research Handbook on Climate Change Law and Loss and Damage (2021). An expert on business, human rights and the environment, in 2022 she undertook the development and delivery of training materials on a human rights-based approach to the plastics value chain for the UN Environment Programme and partners in South-East Asia.
Mariam Shakil
is a Ph.D. candidate in the Organisation Studies and Cultural Theory (dok) programme within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of St. Gallen. She received a bachelor’s degree in law llb (Hons) from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK) and a master’s degree in international law from the University of St. Gallen (hsg). She currently also works as a research associate at the Institute for Business Ethics at the hsg. Her academic interests surround critical assessment of human rights violations stemming from technology business practices, and in particular in the healthcare sector.
Robert Stumberg
is Professor of Law at Georgetown University, where he directs the Harrison Institute for Public Law. The Institute is a teaching and service program that works with public officials and coalitions in community development, health and food, climate and trade, and human rights for workers. His current research centers on standards to support food workers through institutional purchasing. He has worked with the Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium, Electronics Watch, and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (icar). ba, Macalester College; jd, Georgetown University; llm Georgetown University.
Iiris Tuominen
is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Law. Her research interests include legal theory and legal philosophy but also more practical issues such as research ethics. She has previously worked with ethical and legal issues related to improving digital access to Sámi cultural heritage materials. Currently, in addition to her dissertation, she is working with the themes of cultural heritage, intellectual property rights and Indigenous rights and ethics. Within these subject areas, she is affiliated with several research projects.
is Associate Research Professor at the Law and Development Research Group, University of Antwerp. Her work is situated at the intersection of international law, human rights law and sustainable development. She leads the European Research Council (erc) funded genesis project on multistakeholder partnerships and human rights, is a member of the iel Collective, the Law and Development Research Network and the New Frontiers in Development Finance (NeFDeF) project. She is the author of Children’s Rights and Business: Governing Obligations and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2020), co-author of Advanced Introduction to Children’s Rights (Edward Elgar, 2022) and of Children’s Rights: A Commentary on the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Protocols (Edward Elgar, 2019) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations (Routledge, 2022) and of the Encyclopaedia of Law and Development (Edward Elgar, 2019).
Florian Wettstein
is Chair and Professor of Business Ethics and Director of the Institute for Business Ethics at University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Florian has published widely on topics at the intersection of corporate responsibility, business ethics and human rights. He is the author of Multinational Corporations and Global Justice: Human Rights Obligations of a Quasi-Governmental Institution (Stanford University Press, 2009) and the textbook, Business and Human Rights: Ethical, Legal, and Managerial Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Florian is editor-in-chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal (bhrj) and president of the International Society for Business, Economics and Ethics (isbee).
Stefan Zagelmeyer
is Reader in Comparative and International Business at Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK. He has held appointments at Manchester School of Management (UK), Université Paris ii Panthéon-Assas (France), Turku School of Economics (Finland), University of Twente (The Netherlands) and the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa). He is author of numerous publications in academic and practitioner-oriented journals. His research contributions fall into the four areas of international business strategy, comparative business and management, international human resource management, and business and human rights.
Khorsed Zaman
is a lecturer at the Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University. He holds llb Honours from Rajshahi University, Bangladesh; llm in