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On Monday, August 11, 2014 10:07 AM, leonard ssozi <leonar...@gmail.com> wrote:
For those interested in topic of business and human rights in conflict
zones, here is a summer
school opportunity.
warm regards,
Leonard.
I was wondering if you could help us advertise the ETJN-EBHR Summer School
2014? Below are the
details of the ETJN-EBHR Summer School 2014 that may be of interest to
your contacts and networks.
Would you please forward this email and attachments to them.
Best Regards,
William Midzi
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Dear Colleagues,
Building on the strong expertise at Essex on transitional justice and
corporate accountability, the Essex
Transitional Justice Network, together with the Essex Business and Human
Rights Project (EBHR), will be
running its III Transitional Justice Summer School between 18 and 21 September
2014. The theme of this
[UTF-8?]year’s Summer School will be Settling Accounts: The Role of
Businesses in Societies
Emerging from Conflict and Authoritarian Rule.
The summer school will consider the role of businesses in societies emerging
from conflict and authoritarian rule, including different issues of corporate accountability that might arise in these contexts and mechanisms to address it. Experts in both corporate accountability and transitional justice
will discuss specific topics such as project lending; debt and financial complicity, as well as litigation and advocacy strategies in relation to transitional justice.
Teaching staff will include Professor Sheldon Leader, director of the Essex
Business and Human Rights
Project; Professor Sabine Michalowski, editor of the only book on the subject:
Corporate Accountability
in the Context of Transitional Justice; Professor Karen Hulme expert on human
rights and the
environment and winner of the ASIL price for her book War Torn Environment:
Interpreting the Legal
Threshold; Charles Abrahams, senior director of Abrahams Kiewitz Incorporated,
a South African
boutique law firm specializing in class actions, public interest law, and
litigation in the area of business
and human rights; Anneke Van Woudenberg, Senior Researcher at Human Rights
Watchand Richard
Meeran and Daniel Leader, Partners at Leigh Day and with extensive litigation
in cases involving
corporations and countries in transition.
Further details of the ETJN Summer School, including information on speakers
(their short bios), a
provisional programme and instructions on how to register are on our website:
www.esssex.ac.uk/tjn.
The provisional programme and a flyer are also attached. Please forward
this invitation and attached
documents regarding the Essex Transitional Justice Network & Essex Business
and Human Rights Project
Summer School 2014 to your students, staff and anyone else you think may be
interested. Should you be
able towe would appreciate if you could also post the attached flyer for the
event on your information
boards.
Kind regards,
Professor Sheldon Leader
Director of the Essex Business and Human Rights Project
Professor Sabine Michalowski
Chair of the Economic and Social Dimensions of the Essex Transitional Justice
Network
Dr. Clara Sandoval
Director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network
Co-organisers [UTF-8?]– Summer School
zones, here is a summer
school opportunity.
warm regards,
Leonard.
I was wondering if you could help us advertise the ETJN-EBHR Summer School
2014? Below are the
details of the ETJN-EBHR Summer School 2014 that may be of interest to
your contacts and networks.
Would you please forward this email and attachments to them.
Best Regards,
William Midzi
*****************************************************
Dear Colleagues,
Building on the strong expertise at Essex on transitional justice and
corporate accountability, the Essex
Transitional Justice Network, together with the Essex Business and Human
Rights Project (EBHR), will be
running its III Transitional Justice Summer School between 18 and 21 September
2014. The theme of this
[UTF-8?]year’s Summer School will be Settling Accounts: The Role of
Businesses in Societies
Emerging from Conflict and Authoritarian Rule.
The summer school will consider the role of businesses in societies emerging
from conflict and authoritarian rule, including different issues of corporate accountability that might arise in these contexts and mechanisms to address it. Experts in both corporate accountability and transitional justice
will discuss specific topics such as project lending; debt and financial complicity, as well as litigation and advocacy strategies in relation to transitional justice.
Teaching staff will include Professor Sheldon Leader, director of the Essex
Business and Human Rights
Project; Professor Sabine Michalowski, editor of the only book on the subject:
Corporate Accountability
in the Context of Transitional Justice; Professor Karen Hulme expert on human
rights and the
environment and winner of the ASIL price for her book War Torn Environment:
Interpreting the Legal
Threshold; Charles Abrahams, senior director of Abrahams Kiewitz Incorporated,
a South African
boutique law firm specializing in class actions, public interest law, and
litigation in the area of business
and human rights; Anneke Van Woudenberg, Senior Researcher at Human Rights
Watchand Richard
Meeran and Daniel Leader, Partners at Leigh Day and with extensive litigation
in cases involving
corporations and countries in transition.
Further details of the ETJN Summer School, including information on speakers
(their short bios), a
provisional programme and instructions on how to register are on our website:
www.esssex.ac.uk/tjn.
The provisional programme and a flyer are also attached. Please forward
this invitation and attached
documents regarding the Essex Transitional Justice Network & Essex Business
and Human Rights Project
Summer School 2014 to your students, staff and anyone else you think may be
interested. Should you be
able towe would appreciate if you could also post the attached flyer for the
event on your information
boards.
Kind regards,
Professor Sheldon Leader
Director of the Essex Business and Human Rights Project
Professor Sabine Michalowski
Chair of the Economic and Social Dimensions of the Essex Transitional Justice
Network
Dr. Clara Sandoval
Director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network
Co-organisers [UTF-8?]– Summer School
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Leonard Ssozi
Administrator,
Department of Dean of Students
Uganda Martyrs University.
Tel: +256(0)773311123
P.O.Box 5498, Kampala,Uganda
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Partner/Business Development ManagerLeonard Ssozi
Administrator,
Department of Dean of Students
Uganda Martyrs University.
Tel: +256(0)773311123
P.O.Box 5498, Kampala,Uganda
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